Bourgeois, Stephan | |||||||||||||||||||
type | 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
history |
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). |
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decades | 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 |
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updated | 04/24/2025 09:12:57 | ||||||||||||||||||
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see also | Bourgeois Galleries Lewisohn, Adolph, 1849-1938 Van Horne, William Cornelius, Sir, 1843-1915 Lewisohn, Sam A. (Sam Adolph), 1884- | ||||||||||||||||||