My grandfather's gallery : a family memoir of art and war / Anne Sinclair ; translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside.
Language: English Original language: French Publication details: Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing Company, 2014.Description: 224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781922147288 (paperback)
- 1922147281 (paperback)
- 21 rue La Boétie. English
- Rosenberg, Paul
- Rosenberg, Paul, 1881-1959
- Art dealers -- France -- Paris -- Biography
- Painters -- France -- Biography
- Jews -- France -- Paris -- Biography
- Jewish refugees -- United States -- Biography
- Jews -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Jews -- United States -- Social conditions
- Art thefts -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- Art treasures in war -- Europe
- France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945
- Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- 709.2 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 709.2 SIN | Available | 057928 |
Translation of: 21 rue de La Boétie.
Includes bibliographical references.
On September 20, 1940, one of the most famous European art dealers disembarked in New York, one of hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing Vichy France. Leaving behind his beloved Paris gallery, Paul Rosenberg had managed to save his family, but his paintings - modern masterpieces by Cézanne, Monet, Sisley and others - were not so fortunate. As he fled, dozens of works were seized by Nazi forces and the art dealer's own legacy eradicated. More than a half century later, Anne Sinclair uncovered a box filled with letters. 'Curious in spite of myself,' she writes, 'I plunged into these archives, in search of the story of my family. To find out who my mother's father really was. . . a man hailed as a pioneer in the world of modern art, who then became a pariah in his own country during the Second World War. I was overcome with a desire to fit together the pieces of this French story of art and war.'
Translated from the French.
