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Reves, Emery, 1904-1981

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dates 1904-1981
city Roquebrune
other citiesMarshall, TX; New York, NY; Paris, France;
countryFrance
sex M
historical notes Emery Reves, Hungarian by birth, was a journalist, a publisher, and an advocate of world peace. He died in 1981.

The Reves Collection included "paintings, sculptures, and works on paper in the Reves Collection present a stunning array of objects by impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modernist masters including Auguste Rodin, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Honoré Daumier, Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Edgar Degas."
(retrieved, 7/22/2008 )

Emery Reves (1904-1981) began collecting important paintings for the series of hotel suites in which he lived before the acquisition of Villa La Pausa in 1953.
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1960-1970
1970-1980
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Dallas Museum of Art
Art Archives
The Wendy and Emery Reves Papers see details...
University of Chicago, Library
Gunther, John. Papers, 1935-1967 see details...

see also:
Reves, Wendy, 1916-2007