“I thought he had no future at all. And I let his paintings go for practically nothing.”
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Ambroise Vollard
Ambroise Vollard was a French art dealer who is regarded as one of the most important dealers in French contemporary art at the beginning of the twentieth century. He is credited with being a major supporter and champion of the contemporary artists of his period, providing exposure and emotional support to numerous then-unknown artists, including Paul Cézanne, Aristide Maillol, Pierre-Auguste Ren…
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business · French art dealer (1866–1939) · art collector · publisher · art dealer · businessperson · biographer · gallerist · writer · art critic · also Ambroise Vollard, Vollard, Ambrose Vollard, A. Vollard
Born 3 July 1866 · Died 21 July 1939 · Q459041
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2026· 1 entry
1996· 1 entry
That the paintings stored in Paris were to be awarded to the Vollard estate
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1989· 1 entry
In Belgrade and Zagreb under the name "Slomovic Collection
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1979· 1 entry
When the bank was allowed to open its vault to recover unpaid storage fees
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1940· 1 entry
Šlomović put about 200 works in storage in a bank vault, at a branch of the Société Générale in Paris
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1939· 1 entry
Died 1939-07-21.
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1937· 2 entries
Published his autobiography, Recollections of a Picture Dealer
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Made The Dream and Lie of Franco (Sueño y mentira de Franco), a set of eighteen small vignette-like images etched on two copper plates (with aquatint), as a denunciation against the Spanish Civil War and Francisco Fra
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1935· 1 entry
Made Minotauromachy, an etching with engraving, where he takes up again the figure of the Minotaur seen for example in Minotaur Kneeling over Sleeping Girl from the Vollard Suite
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1931· 1 entry
Illustrated for the publisher Albert Skira The Metamorphoses by Ovid
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1930· 1 entry
Vollard commissioned Picasso to produce a suite of 100 etchings which became known as the Vollard Suite
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1927· 1 entry
On the theme of the artist and his model was acquired by the dealer to illustrate The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1931
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1925· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1925).
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1920· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the order of Nichan Iftikhar (1920).
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1912· 1 entry
When Rouault offered him to edit a Miserere on which he was working; Vollard bought it in exchange for illustrating a book written by the dealer himself, Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu, which would not see the light unti
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1911· 1 entry
Awarded Officier de l'Instruction publique (1911).
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1901· 1 entry
Organized the first exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso
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1899· 1 entry
Portrait of Ambroise Vollard with a Cat, painted by Pierre Bonnard c
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1897· 1 entry
Some of these artists repeated, and participated for the first time Edmond Aman-Jean, Eugène Carrière, Paul Cézanne, Georges de Feure, Eugène Grasset, Henri Martin, Lucien Pissarro, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Auguste Rod
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1895· 1 entry
In Clot's workshop, of which one hundred numbered impressions were published and signed by the artist
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1893· 1 entry
Established his own art gallery, at Rue Laffitte, then the center of the Parisian market for contemporary art
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1890· 1 entry
Vollard opened a gallery in Paris, where he exhibited the work of artists such as Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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1866· 1 entry
Born 1866-07-03.
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