Scope and Content of Collection
The archive contains the complete business records of the Galerie Bonnier, Geneva,
Switzerland (1961-1997) and the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Sweden
(1918-1974). The combined galleries dealt in Impressionist, Postimpressionist, Cubist,
German Expressionist, and early abstract art. Important artists who figure as correspondents
as well as subjects in the records include Bonnard, Braque, Cézanne, Degas, Derain, Friesz,
Gauguin, Gleizes, Gris, Kandinsky, Klee, Leger, Matisse, Miró, Modigliani, Monet, Picasso,
Pissarro, Redon, Rodin, and Rouault. Records include reports and records from the
shareholder's meetings; notary deeds; account books with a book of buyer's accounts; books
of inventories (arranged alphabetically by artist's name) documenting transactions with
other galleries including Bernheim-Jeune and Durand-Ruel; inventories of works bought or
accepted on consignment including those from Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler; invoices after 1930;
index card files; correspondence; photographic documentation; press clippings; exhibition
and auction catalogs. Includes a dossier of special files (organized by general topic) that
contains letters in which paintings of contested authorship or provenance were authenticated
by a range of experts that includes Pierre Courthion, Musée Rodin, Jean Ronfort, Pola
Gauguin, Bernheim-Jeune, and Bernard Berenson. Correspondents consist of art critics such as
Ragnar Hoppe, Gregor Paulson, and Axel Romdahl and art houses such as Bernheim-Jeune, Edmond
Sagot, Walter Halvorsen, Valori Plastici, D.H. Kahnweiler, Durand-Ruel, Paul Rosenberg,
Galerie Louis Carré, Berggruen & Cie, Pierre Courthion, and Michel Courturier.
Arrangement note
Arranged in 2 series:
Series I.
Galerie Bonnier records, 1961-1997;
Series II. Svensk-franska Konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden) records,
1918-1974
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