M.Albert Pontremoli | |
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Albert Pontremoli, also known as M. Albert Pontremoli, (Nice, 1862 - Paris, 1923), was a French art collector, lawyer and magistrate of Italian origin.
M.Albert Pontremoli | |
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| Personal details | |
| Profession | Judge, lawyer, magistrate |
Albert Pontremoli, also known as M. Albert Pontremoli, (Nice, 1862 - Paris, 1923), was a French art collector, lawyer and magistrate of Italian origin.
Albert Pontremoli was born in Nice to Eleonora Pontremoli (born in Nice in 1839 and died in Paris in 1890), daughter of the Grand Rabbi of Nice Eliseo Pontremoli, and Salvador Pontremoli (born in 1814 and died in 1882). His sister, Rebecca, was married to French official Gaston Moch, from whom she had the well-known politician Jules Moch. On his mother's side he was a first cousin of Emmanuel Pontremoli, Pio Pontremoli and Enrico Pontremoli. [1]
After studying law, he began working as a lawyer. He later joined the French Court of Appeal where he would work for part of his career, ending it at the French Ministry of the Navy. [2]
He was particularly interested in Impressionist painting, under the influence of his cousins Emmanuel and Albert Hecht. He personally got to know some impressionist painters such as Édouard Manet. [3]
His private collection, one of the most comprehensive, included works by the most important exponents of Impressionism including Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Camille Claudel, Eugène Boudin as well as Eugène Delacroix, Eugène Carrière. [4] [5] Following his death in late 1923 in Paris, his heirs auctioned off his entire large private collection. The sale was divided into three sessions: two in Paris, in July and November 1924, and one in London, in December of the same year. [6] [7] [8]
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)Provenance: Albert Pontremoli, Paris, by April, 1904 [per Pissarro and Snollaerts, 2005]; sold Albert Pontremoli Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 11, 1924, lot 136 (ill.) to Dr. Janos Plesch, Berlin, for 37,700 francs [per Hôtel Drouot sale cat. 1924]; Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, by 1939 [this and the three following per material prepared by Richard-Raymond Alasko, May 1985, curatorial object file and Pissarro and Snollaerts, 2005]; sold to Mrs. John Astor, New York. E and A. Silberman Gallery, New York, by 1951; sold to Nathan Cummings, Chicago, January 25, 1952; transferred to Consolidated Foods Nathan Cummings Collection (Sara Lee Corporation), 1980; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999.
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