René Gimpel
Paris, 1885 - 1945, Neuengamme
Collectionneur d'art
Encyclopedia Britannica-"Art Market-20th Century-Paris"
"Paris remained a crucial market for secondary art throughout the interwar years; the leading dealers were Nathan Wildenstein, the father-and-son partnership of Ernest and René Gimpel, and Jacques Seligmann. For Wildenstein and the Gimpels, the core business was initially in 18th-century French fine art, though both firms (which sustained a partnership, E. Gimpel and Wildenstein, in New York from 1902 to 1919) later became important purveyors of Impressionist works. René Gimpel’s “Diary of an Art Dealer” (1966) provides a first-person account of the heady art scene of the interwar period. "(Britannica School, s.v. "Art market," accessed August 13, 2015. www.britannica.com)
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active New York, 1903 - 1933
Butrimonys, Lithuania, 1865 - 1959, Florence
Geneva, 1826 - 1897, London
Edinburgh, 1881 - 1941
founded Edinburgh, 1795