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Lurcy, Georges, 1891-1953

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dates 1891-1953
city New York City
stateNY
other citiesSouthampton, NY; Paris; Chapel Hill, NC; High Point, NC;
sex M
historical notes Georges Lurcy was a French-born financier (Halle & Stieglitz) and art collector.

Lurcy collected French paintings, graphic work, eighteenth-century French furniture and objects of art. He owned work by, among others, Renoir, Pissarro, Gauguin, Monet, Sisley, Degas, Bonnard, Vuillard, Toulouse-Lautrec, Boudin, Picasso, Braque, Vlaminck, Utrillo, Chagall, Fantan Latour, Van Gogh, Matisse, Segonzac, Soutine, Derain, Marie Laurencin, and Duffy.

His art collection was sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, in 1957, included sixty-five modern French paintings, in addition to a vast array of French decorative arts, and fifty-six other paintings, drawings, prints, and art objects.
Lurcy was an officer of the French Legion of Honor, a member of the advisory committee of the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, member the New York Athletic Club, Stock Exchange Luncheon Club, and Yacht Club of France.
Lurcy married Alice Snow Barbee (1906-1980) in 1937.
decades
of activity
1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950
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Southern Historical Collection
The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alice Lurcy and Georges Lurcy Papers, 1937-1981 see details...