Records of the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Galerie Bonnier 1918-1997

ArchivalResource

Records of the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Galerie Bonnier 1918-1997

Complete business records of the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Sweden (1918-1974) and the successor gallery, Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland (1961-1997). The combined galleries dealt in Impressionist, Post-impressionist, Cubist, German Expressionist, and early abstract art.

213 lin. ft.; 331 boxes

swe,

fre,

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6656899

Getty Research Institute

Related Entities

There are 24 Entities related to this resource.

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz45t8 (person)

Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings. Berenson was a major figure in the attribution of Old Masters, at a time when these were attracting new interest by American collectors, and his judgments were widely respected in the art world. Recent research has cast doubt on some...

Romdahl, Axel L. (Axel Ludvig), 1880-1951

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m91z1x (person)

Redon, Odilon, 1840-1916

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66q218p (person)

French painter. From the description of Letters, 1887-1909. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84546818 ...

Galerie Bonnier

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m95pk9 (corporateBody)

Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm was founded in 1918 by Gosta Olsen. Later merged with Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland in 1973. Galerie Bonnier was founded in 1961 in Lausanne, Switzerland by Jan Runnqvist, son of Harry Runnqvist who was Olsen's partner in Stockholm. It later moved to Geneva, Switzerland in 1969. Between 1964 and 1973, when his father died, Jan Runnqvist directed both galleries until closing Svensk-Franska in 1973 and moving all business records to Geneva. ...

Svensk-franska konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68395ps (corporateBody)

MM. Bernheim Jeune & cie (Paris, France)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68395v1 (corporateBody)

Braque, Georges, 1882-1963

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6377984 (person)

French painter. From the description of Letter, 1905 July 13, Honfleur. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80147574 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Varengeville, to John Rewald, 1951 Oct. 4 and [1956 Sept. 19]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870407 From the description of Letter, 1925. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78558538 ...

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g1618s (person)

Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon...

Monet, Claude, 1840-1926

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zb02hh (person)

French artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Etretat, to Frédéric Bazille, 1869 Jan. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871540 Claude Monet, 1840-1926, was an Impressionist painter. From the description of Letter : from Claude Monet [manuscript]. 1915 Jan. 11. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 222753752 French painter. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Giverney, to Félix Fénéon, 1918 A...

Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x92dkn (person)

Russian-born painter and writer on art. From the description of Mitgliedskarte, ca. 1908, for Neue Künstlervereinigung München. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80564007 The Russian-born artist, Wassily Kandinsky [Vasilii Vasil'evich Kandinskiĭ] is considered one of the creators of abstract painting. He taught at the Bauhaus between 1922 and 1933. From the description of Wassily Kandinsky papers, 1911-1940 (bulk 1921-1937). (Getty Research Insti...

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rn3b48 (person)

Matisse was born in 1869 to generations of weavers in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, a northern French town whose woolen mills constituted the main industry. He was raised in nearby Bohain, famous for its luxury fabrics. This early exposure to textiles would shape his visual language: examples from his own collection of carpets and cloths from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East would deeply inform his sense of color and pattern and appear in his compositions. Taking up painting after first studyin...

Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6862hgm (person)

French artist. From the description of Autograph letter (incomplete at end and lacking signature) : [Paris], to his parents, [1876 Sept. 10]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870505 ...

Derain, André, 1880-1954

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65q4wpv (person)

French painter. From the description of Manuscript essay, ca. 1900. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82375373 From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Chambourg, to John Rewald, 1952 Aug. 4-1953 Oct. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870656 ...

Musèe Rodin

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xt7zvx (corporateBody)

Kahnweiler, Daniel-Henry, 1884-1979

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pr84sm (person)

Klee, Paul, 1879-1940

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pz5d2f (person)

Swiss artist. From the description of List of works and genealogical data, 1903-1922, 1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79260784 ...

Miró, Joan, 1893-1983

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65c0rgj (person)

Spanish painter. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Mallorca, to John Rewald, 1971 Dec. 26 and 1972 Oct. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871537 French painter. From the description of Aidez l'Espagne (poster), 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83814624 ...

Berggruen & Cie

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ss13vq (corporateBody)

Galerie Durand-Ruel

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65x7psx (corporateBody)

Hoppe, Rgnar, b. 1885

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61m1hg6 (person)

Courthion, Pierre

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rp3xxz (person)

French art critic and historian. Student at the Universite de Geneve; Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris; and Ecole du Louvre. From 1933 to 1939 he was Director of the Cite Universitaire de Paris. From the description of Correspondence, ca. 1950-1980. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84279552 Pierre Courthion (1902-1988) was a prominent Swiss-born art critic and historian. Courthion's major projects focused on the history of American, French and European art includin...

Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wq0540 (person)

French artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed (pneumatique) : [postmark Paris], to Lucien Pissarro, [1903 Nov. 17]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870644 French painter, lithographer and sculptor. From the description of Letters, 1879-ca. 1901. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 83749766 Hilaire Degas was a French artist known for his drawings and paintings of ballerinas and race horses. From the description o...

Galerie Louis Carré

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67j3nz2 (corporateBody)

Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61n8712 (person)

French artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Tahiti], to Monsieur Brault, 1903 Feb. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269581224 Gauguin was a French post-impressionist painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. From the description of Paul Gauguin's Le sourire, 1899-1900. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612771726 From the guide to the Paul Gauguin's, Le sourire, 1899-1900., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard Unive...