Paul Gallimard
Paul Gallimard | |
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Born | Paul Sébastien Gallimard 20 July 1850 Suresnes, France |
Died | 9 March 1929 Paris, France | (aged 78)
Nationality | French |
Education | Lycée Condorcet |
Alma mater | École des Beaux-Arts |
Occupations |
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Spouse | Lucie Duché |
Children | 3, including Gaston Gallimard |
Paul Sébastien Gallimard (20 July 1850 – 9 March 1929) was a French
Life and work
Paul Gallimard was born in 1850 to businessman Gustave Gallimard and his wife Henriette (née Chabrier).[1] His parents both belonged to wealthy families. His grandfather Sébastien André Gallimard, a trained coppersmith, made his fortune in Paris during the July Monarchy by producing gaslamps for outdoor street lighting.[2] His mother's family owned several Parisian theatres.[1]
Gallimard traveled extensively in his youth, and later became the secretary to the
On 12 April 1880, Gallimard married Lucie Duché, Gallimard's marriage to Lucie Duché, the granddaughter of editor-printer Amédée Guyot. Their union resulted in three sons: Jacques, Gaston and Raymond. In 1888, he commissioned a group portrait painting of the children made by Eugène Carrière. In the same year, Carrière also created a portrait of Paul Gallimard with the dedication "A mon bon ami Paul Gallimard" (English: "For my good friend Paul Gallimard").[6] Carrière also completed a portrait of Gallimard's wife Lucie,[7] who also sat as a model for Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1892.
Gallimard's mistress was the actress and opera singer Amélie Diéterle, who was twenty-one years his junior. Gallimard was compromised with Diéterle in a scandal which involved fake Rodin sculptures. He was charged with counterfeiting and aiding and abetting by Judge Bonin in 1919.[8] Absent from court at the time of the trial for health reasons, an arrangement took place in 1923 with the donation of a painting by Eugène Carrière to the French State.[9]
Gallimard died on 9 March 1929 in his Rue Saint-Lazare residence. His wife Lucie died at the same location on 2 March 1942.
Art collection
Gallimard's art collection contained a total of 16 works by his friend Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Gallimard supported the painter financially and in 1892 invited him to travel together to Madrid for a month.[2] Works by the Impressionists made up a large part of his collection, which is composed of more than 100 works. In addition to paintings by Renoir, paintings by Edgar Degas (Avant la course),[10] Berthe Morisot, Claude Monet and Édouard Manet (Suzette Lemaire en face)[11] were part of the collection. Gallimard collected other works, including oil paintings and works on paper, from artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, El Greco, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Francisco Goya, Honoré Daumier (Sortie du bateau à lessive),[12] Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Eugène Delacroix and Jean-François Millet. He also collected works by modern artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (M. de Lauradour),[13] Édouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. The importance of the Gallimard Collection was recognized in 1908 in an article written by the influential art critic Louis Vauxcelles in the magazine Les Arts.[1] After Gallimard's death, the collection was sold by its inheritors.
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Honoré Daumier:
Sortie du bateau à lessive, c. 1863, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York -
Édouard Manet:
Suzette Lemaire en face, 1881, Private collection -
Edgar Degas:
Avant la course, 1882–1888, Private collection -
Pierre-Auguste Renoir:
Madame Paul Gallimard (Lucie Gallimard), 1892, Private collection -
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec:
M. de Lauradour, 1897, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Library
In addition to the art collection, Gallimard devoted himself to building an extensive library. He brought together numerous first editions, mostly by French authors of the 19th century. His library also produced expensive
Publications
- Les Étreintes du passé
- Poèmes et Poésies (Translation of John Keats, 1910)
References
- ^ a b c d e f Sulser, Eléonore (25 June 2011). "Paul Gallimard, le génie oublié de la dynastie". Le Temps (in French). Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8020-9211-3.
- ISBN 978-2-235-02037-4.
- ISBN 978-2-600-03526-2. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
- ISBN 978-2-915928-23-5. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
- ^ "Information about the paintings". www.eugenecarriere.com.[dead link]
- ^ "Portrait of Lucie Gallimard". Christie's. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- ^ "Mlle Diéterle et M. Gallimard inculpés dans l'affaire Rodin". Le Petit Parisien (in French). No. 15346. Paris. 13 February 1919.
- ISBN 978-2-07-044169-3.
- ^ "Beschreibung des Gemäldes Avant la course von Edgar Degas". Sotheby's. Archived from the original on 16 January 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ Denis Rouart, Daniel Wildenstein: Edouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné. Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris and Lausanne 1975, Volume II, page 18.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. M. de Lauradour. 1897". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 28 March 2021.