Forgotten Picasso and Derain sell at auction
 

Forgotten Picasso and Derain sell at auction

The collection of Impressionists, of which no one knew for 40 years until she was kept in a cell bank, put up for sale. This write Bloomberg and BBC News. Among the works - Derain, Picasso and Cezanne.
141 painting belonged to the famous art dealer Ambroise Vollard (Ambroise Vollard), who died in a car accident in 1939. After the death of Vollard's collection deposited in the bank Societe Generale gave his assistant, a young Yugoslav Shlomovich Erich (Erich Slomovic). That, in turn, was killed by the Nazis in 1942.

"Treasure" of works of art was discovered in 1979, when the deposit box was opened. Then the pictures were going to be auctioned off, but the auction was canceled because of disputes and the heirs of Vollard Shlomovicha on the Rights of the pictures. These disputes could be solved only in 2006.

Paintings will be sold at auction at Sotheby's in London and Paris, which will be held on 22 and 29 June. It is expected that a total of collection can rescue up to 26 million dollars. Top-lot trading is work Andre Derain "Trees in Kolyure, its valued at 9-14 million pounds (13,9 - 21,6 million dollars). Portrait of Emile Zola's works by Cezanne valued at 500-800 thousand euros (about 650 thousand - a million dollars).

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So who was the heir in 27 years of disputes?

As who? heirs of the heirs ...

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Paintings from the Collection of Vollard, saved from the Nazis as his assistant, first came up for auction

Auction house Sotheby's auctioned in London and Paris painting the greatest French artists of the XX century from the collection of the famous French collector and patron beginning of the century Ambroise Vollard. Paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Renoir, Matisse, Picasso and other famous artists were first released after 70 years ago have been rescued from the Nazis by the Assistant Collector, Croatian Jew Erich Shlomovichem, writes The Independent.

In the summer of 1939 Shlomovich before leaving France to escape the Nazis hid the part of the collection Vollard in Paris bank. This part of the collection Vollard gave his young assistant, before that year was killed in a car accident. Once the paintings were hidden in the vaults of the bank Societe Generale, Shlomovich fled with his family in his native Yugoslavia, where locals gave them the Nazis. Shlomovich family was sent to a concentration camp and, presumably, was killed in a gas chamber in 1942 at age 27.

In 1989, the safe was opened and its contents caused a series of litigation between the heirs of Vollard and Shlomovicha. Vollard's heirs argued that the collector handed Shlomovichu part of his pictures only to the one opened on behalf of the gallery in Belgrade. Litigation dragged on for decades, but eventually was settled in 2006 - part of the collection moved away heirs Vollard, and the part went to Yugoslavia.

At the auctions in June, will feature works by Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin and Renoir, for which is expected to rescue up to 26 million dollars.


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The history is incredibly complicated. On the Internet there is almost no information about clashes between the heirs of that - very strange, it would seem that journalists should be to pounce on it.

I found the decision of the Cassation Court. Here's how I understood the situation:
When Vollard died about a lot of paintings from his collection in the hands of Eric Shlomovicha, student Yugoslav nationality, arrived in Paris in 1934 Part of these pictures (about 400), he moved to Zagreb where they were exhibited in 1940 at the Museum Fine Arts, and the other part (190 pictures) stored in a safe, which he took on the name of his father in the bank Societe Generale.
 
Sam Slomovich died during the Second World War. At the end of the war, his mother decided to move the picture in Belgrade, but the train, in which they were loaded, was bombed. How much work lost, to say impossible, in the postwar period paintings from this collection appear in different places in Europe. The surviving paintings were confiscated after the war the new communist government, which stated that Shlomovicha there are no heirs, and that the collection belongs to Yugoslavia.
In 1946, Societe Generale has decided to open the safe, shot Shlomovichem, as he pays for it stopped coming long ago. Until 1977 the painting was stored in stock bank in Nantes.
In 1977 the bank made an inventory of this collection of paintings and intended to sell them at public auction. To this end, he organized the campaign. Vollard's heirs, on the one hand, and Shlomovicha, on the other hand, know about these pictures of the information disseminated by the bank Societe Generale, told of their rights to the picture.
On the first court decision paintings were divided between the heirs and the heirs of Vollard Shlomovicha.
However, the heirs Shlomovicha argue that Vollard gave Shlomovichu all these pictures, appealed the decision on the grounds that the heirs of Vollard knew about the existence of these pictures at least since 1940 when they were exhibited in the Museum of Belgrade, but he never attempted to obtain them, and consequently, their right to inheritance shall be preskriptsii.
For its part, the heirs of Vollard filed a lawsuit, which challenged the law Shlomovicha at these pictures, claiming that they were handed to him on consignment.
In addition, both parties file claims against the bank Societe Generale.

The Court of Cassation rejected the claims of both sides and decided to return to the court of first instance that the paintings will be divided among the heirs of Vollard and Shlomovicha, who together must reimburse the bank of its costs (a very small amount). As a result, all these heirs have agreed among themselves.

In general, Yugoslavia also claim these pictures, but referred to in passing and without explanation.

But compared with the sale.

Even a simple cell, where a dozen books and almost comes in, costs about 80 euros per year.

But now dozens of paintings. Less than 50 thousand euro is unlikely to be worth a 70-year storage.

Yes, of course. Here is found - 30 894 francs and 400 francs, 216.64, ie 65,320 euros - less than 10%of the preliminary assessment of Zola's portrait of Cezanne.

With this provenance, the painting should definitely go all without exception, and the price will be much higher than similar works .. Have a picture of Vollard's collection, not only prestigious and reliable, but the new owner, really gets a sense of belonging to history .. after Vollard, the dealer was the greatest, who discovered the French and later the world, many names of the Impressionists and other artists of the time .. :o

Collection of Ambroise Vollard sold for 3.5 million euros

Completed the sale of works of art from the collection of the famous art dealer Ambroise Vollard (Ambroise Vollard), informs Associated Press.
139 works, mainly paintings and graphic works that were part of a collection of Vollard, were exhibited auction house Sotheby's for auction, held in Paris on 29 June. The total value of lots sold at auction totaled 3.5 million euros.

The most expensive work of gone under the hammer, has become an engraving by Pablo Picasso's "bread and cheese" (Le repas frugal), sold for 720.7 thousand euros at Estima at 180-300 thousand euros. Monotype Edgar Degas' "Holiday hostess" (La Fete de la Patronne) was also sold with a considerable excess of the provisional assessment. The final price of Degas was 516.7 thousand euros at Estima 200-300 thousand.

One of the top lots of the Paris auction was considered a portrait of Emile Zola, Paul Cezanne's brush. Portrait planned to sell for 500-800 thousand euros, but due to occurred during the auction bug, this lot was withdrawn from the auction.

Vollard's collection was exhibited for sale in two phases. June 22 at Sotheby's in London was presented to one of the most valuable items in the collection Vollard - Work Andre Derain "Arbres a Collioure" ("Trees in Kolliure, 1905). The painting went under the hammer for 16.28 million pounds, setting a new auction record prices for works of this artist.

Collection of Vollard, after his death in a car crash in 1939 was placed on deposit in the bank, where it was detected only in 1979. Due to disputes between the heirs of Vollard, the sale collection includes works by Derain, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, Gauguin and Picasso, was exhibited only in 2010.

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