| Oppenheimer, Julius, 1871-1937 | |||||||
| type | Collector | ||||||
| dates | 1871-1937 | ||||||
| city | New York City | ||||||
| state | NY | ||||||
| other cities | Hanau, Germany; | ||||||
| sex | M | ||||||
| history |
Julius Oppenheimer was a German-Jewish immigrant who came to America from Germany in 1888. He became a successful cloth importer and along with his wife Ella Freedman Oppenheimer, he purchased several works of art. The collection included a 1901 “blue period” painting by Pablo Picasso entitled Mother and Child, a Rembrandt etching, and paintings by Edouard Vuillard, André Derain and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Three Vincent Van Gogh paintings—Enclosed Field with Rising Sun (Saint-Remy, 1889), First Steps (After Millet) (Saint-Remy, 1889) and Portrait of Adeline Ravoux (Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890), drawing by Paul Cézanne, a head by the French sculptor Charles Despiau, and a painting by Maurice de Vlaminck. |
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| decades | 1900-1910 | ||||||
| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:19 | ||||||
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