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Galerie Bernheim Jeune print view role Dealer/Gallery dates 1863-2018 city Paris country France sex n/a historical notes It all begins in Basançon, the Doubs department of the Jura region near the Alps, in 1795. Joseph Bernheim, manufacturer and merchant of colors and supplies for artists, starts collecting his clients' paintings. His son Alexander (1839-1915) befriends Delacroix, Corot and Gustave Courbet who paint in the region. In 1863 Alexander moves to Paris on Courbet's advice. He opens a gallery at 8, rue Laffite where he exhibits painters of the Barbizon school, and, beginning at 1874, the first impressionists before they receive any attention or public acclaim. In 1901 Alexander organizes the first show of Vincent Van Gogh in Paris with the help of his sons Josse(1870-1941) and Gaston (1870-1953). These two young men will propel the Bernheim-Jeune gallery into the limelight of the modern art world. In 1906 they open a gallery on 25, boulevard de la Madeleine. Josse and Gaston present Bonnard, Vuillard, Cezanne, Cross, Seurat, Van Dongen, Matisse, Douanier Rousseau, Raoul Dufy, Vlaminck, Modigliani, Utrillo. The Bernheim-Jeune Gallery becomes the center of the avant-garde. 1925 they move to the avenue Matignon, at the corner of rue du faubourg Saint-Honoré. The premises are inaugurated by the French president Gaston Doumergue on the occasion of the vernissage of "Masterpieces of the XIX and XX Century". Cezanne, Cross, Seurat, Van Dongen, Gauguin, Matisse, Douanier Rousseau, Raoul Dufy, Vlaminck, Modigliani, Utrillo, Renoir, are exhibited, and the gallery becomes the bastion of impressionism. Bernheim-Jeune publish the fine arts review LE BULLETIN DE LA VIE ARTISTIQUE and books on painters. Privileged relationships tie them to the masters of their times. Renoir, Bonnard, Vuillard, Carrière, do their family portraits. Artists, painters and sculptors like Rodin and Maillol are their intimate friends. decades of activity 1860-1870 1870-1880 1880-1890 1890-1900 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 website http://www.bernheim-jeune.com/ phone 33(0)1 42 66 60 31 updated 05/19/2026 10:23:57 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Galerie Bernheim-Jeune 83, rue du faubourg Saint-Honoré Galerie Bernheim-Jeune Records see details... The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Records of the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Galerie Bonnier, 1918-1997. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, 1904-1978, bulk 1913-1974 see details... The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections M. Knoedler & Co. records, approximately 1848-1971 see details... National Gallery of Art, Archives 2000B South Club Drive Chester and Maud Dale Papers see details... National Gallery of Art, Archives 2000B South Club Drive Director Records see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art records, 1883-1962, bulk 1885-1962 see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Walt Kuhn Family papers and Armory Show records, 1859-1984, bulk 1900-1949 see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Elmer Livingston MacRae papers related to the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, 1899-circa 2013, bulk 1912-1916 see details... The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives Early Museum History: Administrative Records see details... The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives The Paul Rosenberg Archives see details... «  back