Otto Gerson (Q62062549)
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German-American art dealer and owner of several art galleries
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| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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German-American art dealer and owner of several art galleries |
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1902
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14 March 2019
Otto Gerson (1902–1962) and Ilse Goehler (m. 1939), New York art dealers, ca. 1940–1962 owned and operated Fine Arts Associates, Gerson Gallery, and the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. (English)
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Otto (1902–62) and Ilse Gerson Otto Gerson and Ilse Goehler (m. 1939), New York art dealers, c. 1940–62, owned and operated Fine Arts Associates, Gerson Gallery, and the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery.AAA: Papers, 1933–80 (correspondence and business records relating to their various galleries, including correspondence with Marlborough Gallery regarding merger. Purchase and sale records, 1948–63; photographs; exhibition catalogues, clippings; personal correspondence and papers, files on artists and collectors, file on the Dina Vierny Gallery, Paris, with correspondence). (English)
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This painting was taken by agents of the German Embassy in Paris on 10 July 1940 from the apartment of Mrs. Fernand Halphen. The Paris dealer, Raphael Gerard, acquired the painting shortly thereafter and sold it to a German businessman, Waldemar Strenger. In May 1948, thanks to an introduction by Adolf Wuester, Strenger met Otto Gerson in Munich and sold him the painting in May 1948. It arrived in New York shortly after May 18, 1948, and was then sold to the Detroit Institute of Arts. (British English)
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Otto Gerson was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States, where he met and married Ilse Goehler in 1939. They both became U.S. citizens and together they rose to prominence as art dealers in New York City, circa 1940-1962, bringing works by noted post-war European (and some American) artists to the American market.The Gersons also owned and operated galleries in New York, including Fine Arts Associates and Gerson Gallery. The Gerson Gallery was located at 41 East 57th Street in New York City and later merged with another gallery to form the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery around 1963, shortly after Otto Gerson's death. (English)
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Otto (1902–62) and Ilse Gerson Otto Gerson and Ilse Goehler (m. 1939), New York art dealers, c. 1940–62, owned and operated Fine Arts Associates, Gerson Gallery, and the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery.AAA: Papers, 1933–80 (correspondence and business records relating to their various galleries, including correspondence with Marlborough Gallery regarding merger. Purchase and sale records, 1948–63; photographs; exhibition catalogues, clippings; personal correspondence and papers, files on artists and collectors, file on the Dina Vierny Gallery, Paris, with correspondence). (English)
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In 1949 Paul Grigaut, the curator of the Detroit Institute of Art, at the time wrote to Otto Gerson, requesting the painting's provenance for an article that would be placed in the "Bulletin of The Detroit Institute of Art" volume XXIX. Gerson replied in writing that the painting was passed from the dealer Ambroise Vollard to a M. Victor Desfoss6s. The painting was published in Desfosds collection catalogue (cat. No.5) in 1899. Gerson completed his report of the provenance in an ambiguous statement that, "the painting was owned for the last thirty years or more by the same family who wish to remain anonymous (English)