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PARIS - Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939) is surely one of the greatest art merchants in history. We owe him the first real Cézanne retrospective (1895), a similar operation for Van Gogh (1896) and the first large exhibition dedicated to Picasso in Paris (1901 ). Nearly three quarters of a century after his demise, the Vollard heritage reappears unexpectedly with the «Vollard coffer». The group of works had been bequeathed by Vollard, right before dying, to his young Yugoslav assistant (who according to some was his lover) Eric Chlomovic. Following the latter’s disappearance in a concentration camp in 1942 the iron coffer survived a train accident, the looting by Bulgarian soldiers, the curiosity of the Yugoslav State … before being found again in the safes of the Société Générale in Paris in 1979. The procedures were very long and finally the contents of this coffer reappeared on the market. On 22 June, a superb Fauve landscape by Derain was up for auction in London (Trees in Collioure from 1905, sold for £16.3 million). On 29 June the rest of the contents of the coffer will be up for sale in Paris. The treasures held in this coffer are surely interesting (such as a portrait of Zola by Cézanne, monotypes by Degas and Picas so), but definitely much less than their fantastic wanderings.
• Auction of «Vollard’s coffer» at Sotheby’s on 29 June 2010

Internetová aukční galerie ArtBohemia má řadu draženných autorů i ve své nabídce, viz:
PAUL CÉZANNE
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PABLO PICASSO
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MARC CHAGALL
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PAUL GAUGUIN
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