Otto Gerson was a German-born American art dealer (1902-1962). [1] [2] [3] [4]
Gerson held numerous exhibitions and printed many art catalogues. [5] [6] [7] Art dealer Jane Wade worked for Otto Gerson and played an important role in the success of the gallery. [8] [9]
Artworks sold by Gerson are in many museums, including the Detroit Institute of Art, [10] the Kimbell Art Museum, [11] the Norton Simon Museum, [12] [13] the MoMa, [14] [15] the Cleveland Museum of Art, [16] the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [17] the National Gallery of Art [18] and many others.
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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)March 1936, purchased by Galerie Stern (Düsseldorf, Germany);1936, Siegfried and Gerda [née Stern] Thalheimer (Paris, France);1936, O. Hirschmann (Amsterdam, Netherlands);(Hedi Stern and her brother Max in partnership with Cornelis van de Wetering, West's Galleries, London, England);1943, on consigment with (E. and A. Silbermann Galleries);(Max Stern's brother-in-law Siegfried Thalheimer in partnership with Otto Gerson, Fine Arts Associates, New York, New York, USA)December 1944-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts
Dr. Franz Haniel, donated 1924 to; Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf; Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Dusseldorf, until 1937; Depot Schloss Niederschönhausen (sale, Lucerne, Galerie Fischer, Gemälde und Plastiken moderner Meister aus deutschen Museen, 30 June 1939, lot 91, for Sf 3,300, to); Emil Georg Bührle (d. 1956), Zurich, by descent in; Bührle family, Zurich, until at least 1967; [Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, London]; [Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc., New York, sold 8 May 1968 to]; Norton Simon Art Foundation
?[Léopold Zborowski (1889-1932), Paris].[Galerie Bing, Paris, by 1925].[Paul Guillaume (1891-1934), Paris, before 1929].[De Hauke & Co., New York, by 1929]. [Lucien Demotte, New York, by 1931, sold to];Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Reis, New York, by 1935-1965, sold to; [Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York, sold 10 December 1965 to];Mr. and Mrs. Norton Simon, Los Angeles, as part of a divorce settlement, 1970, to;Lucille Simon, Los Angeles, sold 14 August 1975 to;[Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, stock no. 6478, sold 14 August 1975 to];Norton Simon Art Foundation
Purchased from the artist by Gertrud Woermann (1862-1945), Hamburg [1]; to Irma Woermann-Roosen (1895-1982), Hamburg, by 1917 [2]. Acquired by Martha Rauert (1869-1958), Hamburg, by 1956 [3]; Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne [4]; Fine Arts Associates (Otto M. Gerson) and the New Gallery (Eugene Victor Thaw), New York, by 1957; acquired by exchange by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1957
Although the mode of transfer of the Kirchner painting from Galerie Grosshennig to Otto Gerson Gallery is unclear, it occurred quickly, as the painting appears in a 1957 exhibition mounted by Gerson. T
The artist. Private collection, Switzerland. (Fine Arts Associates/Gerson Gallery, New York).[1] Joseph H. Hazen [1898-1994], New York, by 1956;[2] Joseph H. Hazen Foundation, New York; gift 1971 to NGA.