Roger Dutilleul

Roger Dutilleul ( Amedeo Modigliani , 1919)

Roger Dutilleul (* 1873 ; † 1956 ) was a French industrialist and art collector.

Dutilleul was the first French collector of early modern paintings, especially Cubist works by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso . He also collected paintings from the École de Paris , a. a. by Amedeo Modigliani , who portrayed him.

Life and collection

Roger Dutilleul came from a medium-sized and wealthy family and was the manager of a large cement factory in Boulogne-sur-Mer . He began collecting around 1907 and was a regular customer of the art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler from 1908 to 1914 , from whom he bought works by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. Other dealers from whom he bought his paintings were Ambroise Vollard and Léonce Rosenberg . After the First World War, the prices for Picasso and other Cubists rose to heights that he could no longer pay. Accordingly, he began collecting works by Fernand Léger , but criticized the works of Juan Gris and Henri Matisse as being too posed and not expressive enough.

In the 1920s he shifted his collection to works at the École de Paris and concentrated on Moise Kisling , Chaim Soutine , Maurice Utrillo and Amedeo Modigliani . The latter portrayed Dutilleul in 1918, the portrait is now in private hands. Between 1928 and 1939 he mainly supported André Lanskoy .

Dutilleul died in 1956 and left his collection to his nephew Jean Masurel and his wife Geneviève, who made it the core of LaM - Lille Métropole, musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut in Lille in 1979 .

literature

• Malcolm Gee: Dutilleul, Roger. Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press; http://www.groveart.com/ (registration required)

Web links

• Brief presentation at the Musée d'Art moderne de Lille Métropole