Author: Blanca Ripoll Sintes and Ambroise Vollard
Publisher: Renaissance
ISBN: 9788418818981
Binding: paperback
Pages: 424
Format: 24 x 17 cm
Spanish Language
In his Memoirs of a Picture Dealer, Ambroise Vollard emerges as one of the privileged viewpoints from which to contemplate, live and in person, the discovery, the controversies and the consolidation of the greatest painters and sculptors in the history of 20th century art: Cézanne, Renoir, Matisse, Gauguin and Picasso were all vindicated by the young French gallery owner. Vollard recounts a multitude of anecdotes and scenes that pepper an exciting existence, shared with a gallery of illustrious characters who live, in the flesh, between his pages. In addition to all his successes as an art dealer, we can add very interesting facets such as that of editor of books illustrated by artists or his invitation to painters to try the paths of the engraving technique. Vollard's Memoirs are, as Josep Pla pointed out before its first edition in Spanish in 1946, translated by Rafael Vázquez Zamora, "a delight for the spirit"; A fresh read that takes us on a journey to a time whose aesthetic ebullition marked the rhythms of the artistic future of the entire last century. And beyond its historical value, it is undoubtedly a very entertaining read, thanks to the sarcastic and ironic narrator Vollard, who conveys his unique perspective to us.
