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12-442: Opened on Rue Laffitte in 1863 by Alexandre Bernheim (1839-1915), friend of Delacroix , Corot and Courbet , it changed location a few times before settling on Avenue Matignon. The gallery promoted realists , Barbizon school paintings and, in 1874, the first impressionist and later Post-Impressionist painters. It closed in 2019. In 1901, Alexandre Bernheim, with his sons, Josse (1870–1941), and Gaston (1870–1953), organized

24-465: A Bonnard and Renoir specialist, started heading Bernheim-Jeune. The gallery now exhibits painters and sculptors in the tradition of the École de Paris and artists such as Jean Carzou , Shelomo Selinger or Pollès . In 2022, Maurice Utrillo 's "Carrefour à Sannois" which had been looted in 1940 during the Nazi occupation of France from a cousin of Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Georges Bernheim ,

36-617: A theater decorator but quickly realized he preferred drawing and painting. In 1938, more than a hundred exhibitions of his works were organized in Paris, in the French provinces and abroad. In 1949, he received the coveted Hallmark prize. In 1952, he created costumes and sceneries for Les Indes Galantes of Rameau at the Opéra de Paris. He continued with Le Loup (1953) for "Les Ballets" of Roland Petit , Giselle (1954) and Athalie (1955) at

48-578: The German occupation , its property was seized by the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce or ERR. In 1941 Bernheim-Jeune was sequestered, paintings confiscated and their buildings sold. Like other Jewish families such as Réné Gimpel , Adolphe Schloss , Anna Jaffé , Raoul Meyer , Armand Dorville , Alfred Lindon , David David-Weill , Alphonse Kann , Paul Rosenberg , Bernheim had to labor for several decades to recover some of

60-537: The Opéra and "La Comédie française". Carzou was elected a member of the Institut de France , Académie des beaux-arts , succeeding in the seat left vacant by the death of painter Jean Bouchaud in 1977. He was also awarded the National Order of Merit of France. A Carzou museum exists in the town of Dinard (Brittany). Carzou's work is held in the permanent collections of several institutions, including

72-497: The château, after five truckloads of items were removed; the paintings may have been destroyed. The son of Gaston and Suzanne Bernheim, Claude Bernheim dit Bernheim de Villers (September 15, 1902 – 1944), was arrested and deported in 1943 to his death at Auschwitz . After the death in 2012 of Michel Dauberville, descendant of Bernheim, his cousin Guy-Patrice Dauberville, also an expert in modern paintings and

84-466: The first important exhibition of Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris with the help of art critic Julien Leclercq . In 1906, Bernheim-Jeune frères started presenting works by Pierre Bonnard , Édouard Vuillard , Paul Cézanne , Henri-Edmond Cross , Kees van Dongen , Henri Matisse , Le Douanier Rousseau , Raoul Dufy , Maurice de Vlaminck , Amedeo Modigliani , Maurice Utrillo and Georges Dufrénoy . From 1906 to 1925, art critic Félix Fénéon

96-598: The gallery would be closing. Rue Laffitte Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.237 via cp1104 cp1104, Varnish XID 193619254 Upstream caches: cp1104 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:42:37 GMT Jean Carzou Jean Carzou ( Armenian : Ժան Գառզու , born in Aleppo ; 1 January 1907 – 12 August 2000)

108-648: The paintings, the task made more difficult as two record ledgers had disappeared from the gallery during the looting. In 1940 sensing that they, of Jewish background, would be targeted by the Nazis, the Bernheim-Jeune family had sent 30 or so impressionist and post-impressionist paintings to the Château de Rastignac in Dordogne for safekeeping. On March 30, 1944, fleeing Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) forces set fire to

120-538: Was a French–Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator, whose work illustrated the novels of Ernest Hemingway and Albert Camus . Carzou was born Karnik Zouloumian ( Armenian : Գառնիկ Զուլումեան ) in Aleppo , Syria to an Armenian family. Carzou later created his name from the first syllables of his name and surname, and added a Parisian nickname, " Jean ". He was educated in Cairo , Egypt before moving to Paris in 1924 to study architecture. He started working as

132-513: Was restituted to the heirs after a long legal battle. The city of Sannois (Val-d'Oise) had bought the painting at Sotheby's in 2004. In 2015 the Commission responsible for dealing with Nazi looted art (the CIVS) advised the town that the painting had been looted. A new law voted by France's National Assembly in 2022 paved the way for restitution. In 2018, the Bernheim-Jeune website announced

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144-580: Was the director of the gallery and was instrumental in bringing in the art of Georges Seurat and Umberto Boccioni . The gallery became one of the centers of the artistic avant-garde . In 1906, the gallery also began publishing monographs; its first release was devoted to the paintings of Eugène Carrière . In 1919 it also launched a bimonthly bulletin about artistic life. In 1922, an exhibition brought together works by Alice Halicka , Auguste Herbin , Pierre Hodé, Moïse Kisling , Marie Laurencin , Henri Lebasque , Fernand Léger and Henri Matisse . During

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