Paul Gallimard

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Paul Sébastien Gallimard (born July 20, 1850 in Suresnes , † March 9, 1929 in Paris ) was a French collector of books and paintings.

Live and act

Paul Gallimard was born in 1850 to the stockbroker Gustave Gallimard and his wife Henriette, née Chabrier. The parents' families were both very wealthy. His grandfather Sébastien André Gallimard, a trained coppersmith, had made a fortune in Paris during the July monarchy by introducing gas lamps for street lighting . The mother's family owned several Parisian theaters.

Paul Gallimard got to know original paintings early on through his father's collection of paintings, which had brought together works from the Barbizon School . After graduating from the Lycée Condorcet , he began studying painting at the École des beaux-Arts . He was also interested in architecture and drew design ideas for a museum in Buenos Aires as a dilettante while on a trip to South America. Gallimard did not pursue a career, however, but lived on his inherited wealth. He was the owner of the Théâtre des Variétés and several houses in Paris. He himself lived in a Hôtel particulier at 79 Rue Saint-Lazare in Paris and owned a villa in the seaside resort of Benerville-sur-Mer on the English Channel . Villa Lucie , named after Gallimard's wife, is now (2013) used as a hotel under the name Manoir de Benerville .

Gallimard's marriage to Lucie Duché resulted in the sons Jacques, Gaston and Raymond. In 1888 he had a group portrait 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” ( For my good friend Paul Gallimard ). Carrière also portrayed his wife Lucie, who in 1892 also sat as model for Pierre-Auguste Renoir .

Art collection

Gallimard's art collection contained a total of 16 works by his friend Renoir. Gallimard supported the painter financially and in 1892 invited him to travel to Madrid for a month . In the collection of more than 100 works, works by the Impressionists took up a large part. In addition to paintings by Renoir, the collection also included paintings by Edgar Degas ( Avant la course ), Berthe Morisot , Claude Monet and Édouard Manet ( Suzette Lemaire en face ). Gallimard had other works, oil paintings and works on paper, from artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn , El Greco , Jean-Honoré Fragonard , Francisco de Goya , Honoré Daumier ( Sortie du bateau à lessive ), Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot , Jean-Auguste- Dominique Ingres , Eugène Delacroix and Jean-François Millet . There were also works by modern artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ( M. de Lauradour ), Édouard Vuillard , Pierre Bonnard , Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso . The importance of the Gallimard Collection was recognized in an article by influential art critic Louis Vauxcelles in Les Arts magazine in 1908 . After Gallimard's death, the heirs sold the collection.

  • Honoré Daumier:
    Sortie du bateau à lessive , around 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 intensively to building an extensive library. Above all, he brought together numerous first editions - mostly by French authors of the 19th century. In addition, he published high quality editions. This included a luxury edition of Germinie Lacerteux by the Goncourt brothers , which appeared in an edition of only three copies. The book contains original illustrations by Jean-François Raffaëlli and the cover was designed by Eugène Carrière. Other book projects included an elaborately designed edition of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal , which he had Auguste Rodin adorned with pen drawings . Paul Gallimard's library was also sold after his death. The passion for books - Eléonore Sulser describes Paul Gallimard as a "bibliophile" - passed on to his son Gaston, who in 1911 founded the publishing house Éditions Gallimard , which still exists today .

literature

  • Willa Z. Silverman: The new bibliopolis, French book collectors and the culture of print, 1880-1914 . University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2008, ISBN 978-0-8020-9211-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Eléonore Sulser: Paul Gallimard, le génie oublié de la dynastie published in Le Temps on June 25, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c d Willa Z. Silverman: The new bibliopolis, page 119
  3. ↑ Website of the city of Deauville with information about Gallimard's house in Benerville  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.deauville.fr  
  4. ↑ Information on the paintings at www.eugenecarriere.com
  5. ↑ Information on the portrait of Lucie Gallimard at Christie's auction house
  6. ↑ Description of the painting Avant la course by Edgar Degas on the homepage of the auction house Sotheby’s
  7. ↑ See Denis Rouart, Daniel Wildenstein: Edouard Manet: Catalog raisonné . Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris and Lausanne 1975, Volume II, p. 18.
  8. ^ Description of the painting Sortie du bateau à lessive by Honoré Daumier on the homepage of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  9. ^ Description of the painting M. de Lauradour by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec on the website of the Museum of Modern Art
personal data
SURNAME Gallimard, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gallimard, Paul Sébastien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art collector
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Suresnes
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1929
Place of death Paris