Picasso, Klee, Matisse, Giacometti by Claire Bernardi

Picasso, Klee, Matisse, Giacometti by Claire Bernardi

German-American art collector-dealer Heinz Berggruen amassed an exceptional collection, including works by twentieth-century masters Picasso, Klee, Matisse, and Giacometti.

Heinz Berggruen's collection-with more than one hundred masterpieces by Picasso, Klee, Matisse, and Giacometti-is a spectacular tribute to the foresight of this major player in the international art market during the second half of the twentieth century. Born into a Jewish family in Berlin in 1914, he went into exile in California on the eve of World War II. He became art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and assistant to the director of the San Francisco MoMA. After the war, Berggruen returned to Europe, first to Munich as a journalist, then to Paris where he worked at the UNESCO headquarters before becoming an art dealer specialized in the graphic works of modern artists. He quickly established contacts within the Parisian cultural scene, meeting both the artists he would represent and the poets, dealers, historians, critics, and collectors of the day. Guided by his personal tastes, he built a remarkable collection of twentieth-century works spanning the entire careers of Picasso and Klee and including Matisse's collages and Giacometti's sculptures.

Gloria Groom is chair of European Painting and Sculpture and the David and Mary Winton Green Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Dario Gamboni is full professor at the Université de Genève. Harriet K. Stratis is senior research conservator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. Oph�lie Ferlier-Bouat is curator of sculpture at the Mus�e d'Orsay. Claire Bernardi is curator of paintings at the Mus�e d'Orsay. Allison Perelman is research associate in the Department of European Painting and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. Isabelle Cahn is chief curator of paintings at the Musée d'Orsay. Estelle B�gu� is painting documentalist at the Mus�e d'Orsay. Nad�ge Horner is sculpture documentalist at the Mus�e d'Orsay. Elsa Badie Modiri is painting documentalist at the Mus�e d'Orsay.

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ISBN 13	9782080462442
ISBN 10	208046244X
Title	Picasso, Klee, Matisse, Giacometti
Author	Claire Bernardi
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Editions Flammarion
Year published	2025-02-06
Number of pages	192
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