Bourgeois, Stephan

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role

Dealer/Gallery Scholar/Critic/Expert Consultant

dates

1881-1962

city

New York City

state

NY

other cities

Cologne, Germany; Geneva, Switzerland; Paris, France; Lille, France;

sex

M

historical notes

Stephan Bourgeois was a New York City art dealer and advisor. Bourgeois came to the United Stated in 1911 (naturalized U.S. Citizen, 1920). He opened his own art gallery, Bourgeois Galleries, in 1914, and it closed in 1932.

Bourgeois lent work by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Edouard Manet (1832-1883), and A. Monticelli to New York’s International Exhibition of Modern Art in 1913. He served as an advisor for the Canadian collector William C. van Horne (1843-1915), and for Adolph and Sam Lewishon ; authoring a catalogue for the Adolph Lewisohn Collection.

In 1921, Bourgeois married the dancer, adopted daughter of Angela Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), Maria-Theresa Kruger (1895-1987, m. 1921); they had two sons, Rano (1922-2003) and Feodor (b. 1923).

decades
of activity

1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960

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02/14/2025 10:12:30

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Stephan Bourgeois papers, 1908-circa 1964	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, 1904-1978, bulk 1913-1974	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Oscar Bluemner papers, 1886-1939	see details...
The G. Robert Strauss, Jr. Memorial Library Albright-Knox Art Gallery	Gordon B. Washburn Records, 1932-1941 (AK2.5)	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Nassos Daphnis papers, 1940-1977	see details...