Venues:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Museion, Bolzano, February 18, 1996.

Curator:
Ralph Jentsch.

Artists/Publisher:
Ambroise Vollard.

Exhibition description:
This exhibition focused on the French art dealer and cultural promoter Ambroise Vollard, one of the greatest dealers and publishers of modern art. Vollard organized the first exhibitions of Picasso, Cézanne, Bonnard and Matisse, and acquired works by Dérain and Vlaminck. His Rue Laffitte Gallery was continually overflowing with art. It opened in 1895 with the first major retrospective of Van Gogh’s paintings. Vollard was a landmark figure in the field of graphics; he published his first portfolio in 1895, which included plates by Bonnard, Redon, Munch and Renoir, and was followed by forty-three other volumes. Vollard is considered to be the creator of the artist book, as he encouraged some of the greatest artists of the twentieth century to create unique livres d’artiste.

Catalogue:
Jentsch, Ralph. Ambroise Vollard Éditeur. Venezia: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Fondazione Solomon R. Guggenheim, 1996.

Two catalogues, in English and Italian. Catalogues include essays by Ralph Jentsch and Pier Luigi Siena, and a biography by Karole P. B. Vail.

Library location: GUGG PGC 1996 .07, GUGG PGC 1996 .08, GUGG PGC 1996 .09 (English); GUGG PGC 1996 .04, GUGG PGC 1996 .05 (Italian).