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It retraces the life of a courageous man, a real impresario of the artists, via the journey of some sixty famous canvases transited in his luxurious gallery, 21 rue La Boétie in Paris, opened in 1910. Many of these masterpieces were confisca- ted during the occupation in 1940 and during Nazi looting and then returned to museums and private collections around the world.
Thus, the painting «Blue dress in an ochre chair» by Henri Matisse was returned to the Rosenberg family only in 2014.
Paul Rosenberg, a traveler of modernity, has moved the world center of art from Paris to New York, and has opened another gallery in London. When, in 1940, he was obliged to flee France for the United States following the persecution of the Jewish people, part of his collection was fortunately already on site for a retrospective organized in 1939.
Henri Matisse
The striped dress 15 and 26 January 1938 Albertina, Vienna Batliner Collection © Succession H. Matisse - SABAM Belgium 2016
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