Bernheim-Jeune

In 1901, Alexandre Bernheim, with his sons, Josse (1870–1941), and Gaston (1870–1953), organized the first important exhibition of Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris with the help of art critic Julien Leclercq.{{Cite web |url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095501260?rskey=hQFYWl&result=1 |title=Oxford Index |access-date=2017-09-26 |archive-date=2017-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830201326/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095501260?rskey=hQFYWl&result=1 |url-status=dead }}

In 1906, Bernheim-Jeune frères started presenting works by Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Paul Cézanne, Henri-Edmond Cross, Kees van Dongen, Henri Matisse, Le Douanier Rousseau, Raoul Dufy, Maurice de Vlaminck, Amedeo Modigliani, Maurice Utrillo and Georges Dufrénoy.

From 1906 to 1925, art critic Félix Fénéon was the director of the gallery and was instrumental in bringing in the art of Georges Seurat and Umberto Boccioni.[http://www.abcgallery.com/list/2002aug01.html Abc. Gallery.com] The gallery became one of the centers of the artistic avant-garde. In 1906, the gallery also began publishing monographs; its first release was devoted to the paintings of Eugène Carrière. In 1919 it also launched a bimonthly bulletin about artistic life.

In 1922, an exhibition brought together works by Alice Halicka, Auguste Herbin, Pierre Hodé, Moïse Kisling, Marie Laurencin, Henri Lebasque, Fernand Léger and Henri Matisse.[http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=6043 The Frick Collection, Galerie Bernheim Jeune][http://chnm.gmu.edu/transatlanticencounters/items/show/5161 Transatlantic Encounters]

During the German occupation, its property was seized by the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce or ERR.{{Cite web |date=2021-08-18 |title=Lost Art Internet Database - Jüdische Sammler und Kunsthändler (Opfer nationalsozialistischer Verfolgung und Enteignung) - Bernheim-Jeune, Josse |url=https://www.lostart.de/Content/051_ProvenienzRaubkunst/DE/Sammler/B/Bernheim-Jeune,%20Josse.html |access-date=2022-02-17 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818142441/https://www.lostart.de/Content/051_ProvenienzRaubkunst/DE/Sammler/B/Bernheim-Jeune,%20Josse.html |archive-date=18 August 2021 |url-status=dead}} In 1941 Bernheim-Jeune was sequestered, paintings confiscated and their buildings sold.{{cite book | title=The Lost Masters: World War II and the Looting of Europe's Treasurehouses | first1=P | last1=Harclerode | first2=B | last2=Pittaway | publisher=Welcome Rain Publishers | year=2000 | pages=90–91 | isbn=9781566491655 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dvVPAAAAMAAJ&q=Bernheim-Jeune+Chateau+de+Rastignac }} Like other Jewish families such as Réné Gimpel, Adolphe Schloss,{{Cite web|title=The Fate of the Adolphe Schloss Collection {{!}} JDCRP Pilot Project|url=https://pilot-demo.jdcrp.org/essays/fate-of-the-schloss-collection/|access-date=2022-02-17|website=pilot-demo.jdcrp.org}} Anna Jaffé,{{Cite web|date=2016-01-27|title=French family demands the return of Constable painting|url=https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20160127-french-family-demands-return-constable-painting|access-date=2022-02-17|website=RFI|language=en}} Raoul Meyer,{{Cite web|last=D'Arcy|first=David|title=French heir ends fight to reclaim Nazi-looted Pissarro painting found in Oklahoma|url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/camille-pissarro-painting-meyer-oklahoma-university/index.html|access-date=2022-02-17|website=CNN|language=en}} Armand Dorville,{{Cite web|last1=Machemer|first1=Theresa|title=Art Historian Identifies Ten Nazi-Looted Paintings in the Louvre's Collections|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/art-historian-identifies-rightful-heir-ten-nazi-looted-paintings-louvre-180974038/|access-date=2022-02-17|website=Smithsonian Magazine|language=en}} Alfred Lindon,{{Cite news|last=Moynihan|first=Colin|date=2018-06-03|title=Did Christie's Do Its Homework? Buyer of Nazi-Tainted Work Says No|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/03/arts/design/christies-nazi-art-alfred-lindon.html|access-date=2022-02-17|issn=0362-4331}} David David-Weill,{{Cite web|title=A Rare Buddha's Head Statue Once Looted by the Nazis Goes up for Auction in New York {{!}} Auctions News {{!}} THE VALUE {{!}} Art News|url=https://en.thevalue.com/articles/nazi-looted-art-china-buddha-head-christies-auction-eskenazi|access-date=2022-02-17|website=TheValue.com|language=en-US}} Alphonse Kann,{{Cite news|last=Riding|first=Alan|date=1997-09-03|title=Collector's Family Tries to Illuminate the Past of Manuscripts in France|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/03/arts/collector-s-family-tries-to-illuminate-the-past-of-manuscripts-in-france.html|access-date=2022-02-17|issn=0362-4331}} Paul Rosenberg, Bernheim had to labor for several decades to recover some of the paintings, the task made more difficult as two record ledgers had disappeared from the gallery during the looting.[http://www.lootedart.com/MFEU4A50715 Looted art.com] In 1940 sensing that they, of Jewish background, would be targeted by the Nazis, the Bernheim-Jeune family had sent 30 or so impressionist and post-impressionist paintings to the Château de Rastignac in Dordogne for safekeeping. On March 30, 1944, fleeing Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) forces set fire to the château,[http://www.thecolumnists.com/johnson/johnson103.html Michael Johnson, Our Whitehouse in France] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110704080203/http://www.thecolumnists.com/johnson/johnson103.html |date=2011-07-04 }} Retrieved March 21, 2011 after five truckloads of items were removed;[https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.ww2-derniersecret.com/Aquitaine/24-2.html&ei=3kWHTbudONSatwef4-nUBA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFEQ7gEwBzgK&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dch%25C3%25A2teau%2Bde%2Brastignac%2Bduring%2BWWII%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DRVK%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Divnsb Resistance and Liberation Maquis Dordogne (continued from page 1) Suite de la chronologie des combats (du 14 janvier 1944 au 23 août 1944) Following the chronology of the battle (14 January 1944 to August 23, 1944)] Retrieved March 21, 2011 the paintings may have been destroyed.{{cite book | title=The rape of Europa: the fate of Europe's treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War | author=Nicholas, L | publisher=Vintage eBooks | year=1995 | isbn=9780307739728 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-fo7jn3WTDsC&dq=Bernheim-Jeune+Chateau+de+Rastignac&pg=PT354 }}

The son of Gaston and Suzanne Bernheim, Claude Bernheim dit Bernheim de Villers (September 15, 1902 – 1944), was arrested and deported in 1943 to his death at Auschwitz.{{Cite web|title=Claude-Bernheim-de-Villers|url=http://www.ajpn.org/personne-Claude-Bernheim-de-Villers-6511.html|access-date=2022-02-17|website= ajpn.org|quote=En 1943, Claude Bernheim de Villers, âgé de 41 ans, est arrêté parce que Juif et déporté sans retour par le convoi n° 64 du 7 décembre 1943 vers Auschwitz.}}

After the death in 2012 of Michel Dauberville, descendant of Bernheim, his cousin Guy-Patrice Dauberville, also an expert in modern paintings and a Bonnard and Renoir specialist, started heading Bernheim-Jeune.

The gallery now exhibits painters and sculptors in the tradition of the École de Paris and artists such as Jean Carzou, Shelomo Selinger or Pollès.

In 2022, Maurice Utrillo's "Carrefour à Sannois" which had been looted in 1940 during the Nazi occupation of France from a cousin of Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Georges Bernheim,{{Cite web |title=Georges Bernheim (202880) |url=https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/ressources/artists-personalities-catalog/georges-bernheim-202880 |access-date=2023-01-14 |website=Musée d'Orsay |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230114061927/https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/ressources/repertoire-artistes-personnalites/georges-bernheim-202880|archive-date= 2023-01-14 }} was restituted to the heirs after a long legal battle. The city of Sannois (Val-d'Oise) had bought the painting at Sotheby's in 2004. In 2015 the Commission responsible for dealing with Nazi looted art (the CIVS) advised the town that the painting had been looted. A new law voted by France's National Assembly in 2022 paved the way for restitution.{{Cite web |last=Lefèvre |first=Christophe |date=2022-05-30 |title=Sannois : le tableau de Maurice Utrillo spolié pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale rendu à son propriétaire |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/val-d-oise-95/sannois-le-tableau-de-maurice-utrillo-spolie-pendant-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale-rendu-a-son-proprietaire-30-05-2022-ATAI3E6FPRCKTBBDQUC5QYWMUY.php |access-date=2023-01-14 |website=leparisien.fr |language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web |title=Sannois. 82 ans après son vol par les nazis, la toile d'Utrillo enfin rendue à son légataire |url=https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/sannois_95582/sannois-82-ans-apres-son-vol-par-les-nazis-la-toile-d-utrillo-rendue-a-son-legataire_51318000.html |date=2022-05-30 |first1= Daniel |last1=Chollet |access-date=2023-01-14 |website=actu.fr |language=fr}}{{Cite web |title=Gros plan sur la restitution des œuvres spoliées par les nazis |url=https://www.lagazettedescommunes.com/804451/gros-plan-sur-la-restitution-des-oeuvres-spoliees-par-les-nazis/ |date=2022 |first1=Isabelle |last1=Verbaere |access-date=2023-01-14 |website=La Gazette des Communes |language=fr-FR}}

In 2018, the Bernheim-Jeune website announced the gallery would be closing.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bernheim-jeune.com|title=fermeture|website=Bernheim-Jeune|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-18}} "Nous avons le regret d'annoncer la fermeture de la galerie Bernheim-Jeune. Les études d'œuvres attribuées à Renoir ou à Bonnard continuent." Translation to English, "We regret to announce the closure of the Bernheim-Jeune gallery. The studies of works attributed to Renoir or Bonnard continue."

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) De gebroeders Bernheim-Jeune - Musée d'Orsay Parijs 22-8-2017 16-21-41.JPG|Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) Bernheim-Jeune - Musée d'Orsay Paris

Bernheim-Jeune Exhibition Impressionnists 1903.png|Bernheim-Jeune exhibition of Impressionists, April 1903

The Art Dealers (The Bernheim-Jeune Brothers) by Édouard Vuillard.jpg|Édouard Vuillard, The Art Dealers - The Bernheim-Jeune Brothers - (1912)

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• [http://www.bernheim-jeune.com/ Official website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150716220436/http://www.bernheim-jeune.com/story/ Bernheim Jeune story]
• [http://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/collections/oeuvres-commentees/peinture/commentaire_id/madame-josse-bernheim-jeune-et-son-fils-henry-21177.html?tx_commentaire_pi1%5BpidLi%5D=509&tx_commentaire_pi1%5Bfrom%5D=841&cHash=76d23cdeb7 Pierre Auguste Renoir! Madame Josse Bernheim-Jeune et son fils Henry at the Musée D'orsay]

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