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View 1 comment. Feb 06, Perlie rated it really liked it. An absorbing story of identity, self and family, connection and loss. Many of the art works mentioned bear looking at. Jan 18, Amy rated it liked it Shelves: art-inspired , history , nonfiction , for-a-book-club. A more appropriate title for this book is "My Grandfather and His Gallery". While Sinclair does include her family in her memoir, it's not quite a "family memoir", and while she does mention war, it's not as prevalent as one would expect.
It is a memoir of her realizing that she knew very little about her grandfather, Paul Rosenberg, the owner of a highly successful art dealer who represented such artists as Picasso, Matisse, and Braque, and her quest to learn more about him. What she finds is very interesting as she gives us a glimpse into the Parisian art world pre-WWII and more personal looks at Picasso and Matisse.
I've read about the main dealers such as Vollard and Durand-Ruel, but I never exactly understood the business, and her explanations of how her grandfather ran his business a much more magnanimous dealer than most helped me grasp its workings. He was instrumental in creating a market for those artists.
Rosenberg was Jewish, and through his connections, he and his family are one of the few thousands able to escape persecution to America where he began a successful gallery in New York and live on the East Side and in Midtown. During the war, he traveled all over the country introducing Americans to modern art. Shortly after the war, he and his family move back to Paris.
My grandfather's gallery : a family memoir of art and war
He was able to save much of his art, but not surprisingly, much of it was stolen by the Germans; surprisingly, he got much of it back. The Germans also set up a propaganda shop in his gallery, but he got that back, too, and was able to sell it. Even though his friendship with Picasso was never the same, he and his family continued to be successful selling art.
Compared to millions of others, they were exceptionally fortunate. Compared to other memoirs such as Simon Goodan's "The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasure Stolen by the Nazis" and Edmund de Waal's "The Hare with the Amber Eyes", both of which deal with real loss of home, belongings, family, and the very real struggle to reclaim what was once theirs, this one seems a little flat. What I did find interesting was how France went back to the status quo in the post-war years.
Many who collaborated with the Vichy government and Nazis were let off the hook and Jews and their collaborator neighbors seemed to go on being neighborly. It wasn't until the 's that people were finally being held accountable for their actions. And now France, like the rest of Europe and America , is once again turning pro-Right and focusing on nationalism and identity. This human catastrophe that we are supposed to "never forget" continues to fade into the past as it seems we have to learn history all over again.
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Enjoyable but not tremendously enthralling book about the author's journey into her family history. The author is the granddaughter of Parisian Gallery owner Paul Rosenberg, who was responsible for encouraging, if not creating the world's appreciation of modern artists such as Matisse, and Picasso. Rosenberg fled France before a full Nazi takeover, and managed to hide various paintings of the masters, while promoting their art from his new gallery in New York.
After the war, Rosenberg returned Enjoyable but not tremendously enthralling book about the author's journey into her family history. After the war, Rosenberg returned to Paris and spent the remainder of his life working to reclaim his own stolen art, as well as trying to locate the artwork pillaged by the Nazis.
Rosenberg's gallery, ironically, was turned into a Nazi propaganda office during the war, and much of the book focuses on how the author spent most of her life not knowing that much about her grandfather other than that he was a well known art dealer. The book focuses on what the author discovers about how her grandfather helped change the art world, as well as how he unwittingly opposed the Nazis by promoting "new" as opposed to focusing on a grandeur of the past. Paul Rosenberg became a seminal figure in the history of the art world by virtue of his convictions, his meticulous record keeping, and his need to make sure that, no matter what, art must be preserved for the ages.
I learned what I always learn in books of this type: Nazis, and those fanatical groups like them, are capable of inflicting such incalculable harm, and there is simply no way to understand how it could possibly have happened. Maniacs say and do things that every sane person should regard as off-the-wall, and yet the society proceeds in a march toward mass destruction seemingly as if in a hypnotic trance unable to notice the insanity they are perpetuating.
The book, for me, was not as interesting as it might be for others because I am not an art aficionado. Nonetheless, I was able to have a great appreciation for what Paul Rosenberg meant to the art world. Anne Sinclair is an iconic figure in France - she was the French Christiane Amanpour for many years and then of course known infamously as the wife of Dominique Stauss Kahn during the hotel scandal where any hopes for him to become the next French president were dashed. I vaguely knew she came from a family who were art dealers before the war but I had no idea of the importance of her grandfather Paul Rosenberg to art history represented and promoted Picasso and Matisse among others.
Sinclair Anne Sinclair is an iconic figure in France - she was the French Christiane Amanpour for many years and then of course known infamously as the wife of Dominique Stauss Kahn during the hotel scandal where any hopes for him to become the next French president were dashed. Sinclair who's real name is Schwartz - changed by her father ostensibly to avoid being found by Hitler's goons when he was a resitant , was born in New York where her family had settled after barely escaping the Nazis.
The name comes from the location of the gallery in Paris which was taken by the Nazis and then ironically became the Institute for the study of the Jewish Question, under the Nazi Regime. Rosenberg was able to rebuild his business in New York and then fought for years after the war to get his paintings back. Touches interestingly on how France has dealt with its history with the Jews after the war.
Jul 10, Jennifer rated it really liked it. Fascinating portrait of cosmopolitan Jews in France in the inter-war years. The way art intersects with fascism seems vital for us to all understand these days. Sep 22, Helen rated it liked it. Whilst a very interesting story to be told about an art dealer through the war years and beyond, his links to great artists such as Matisse and Picasso, it felt disjointed from chapter to chapter. However, I did enjoy learning about Paul Rosenberg's career and connections as an art dealer. I read this book in a one session; just could not stop.
It touches upon all I care about almost. Jews, Art, Paris, New York and family. Beautifully written, very dignified and careful never to allow for gossipy modes. I recommend it.
My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War
This is potentially an interesting biography, but I found the writing style rather jumbled. As a result, I couldn't follow the narrative and so stopped reading the book. Oct 31, Ashley rated it really liked it Shelves: , wwii-holocaust-etc. I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads. Though I enjoyed this book, it does have its weaknesses. Some of it, I think, is the harm translation can sometimes do--not that it's poorly translated, but that like so many other books there were moments where I wondered if perhaps it was better in the original despite not reading French.
That doesn't mean that it's a difficult book to read in translation, just that I can be hyperaware of "I wonder if that changed in translation. That said, it's not as personal as the title implied to me--though yes, Sinclair is writing about her grandfather, she overwhelmingly seems to use archival materials that would have been available to any biographer with the dedication and means to travel. It doesn't make for a bad biography, and it does make a better-researched one--but it also feels strange when the expectation seemed to be set for a more personal discussion of Paul Rosenberg and his life and work.
The introduction touches on the rise and continuance of antisemitism in France today, and that's an important thing. There's more to be gleaned from Paul Rosenberg's story than just that it happened sixty years ago and now should be relegated to art history, and the introduction does offer some illustration that the practice of repeating "never again" over and over does little when the ideological forces that permitted the Holocaust to happen continue to exist and have significant following.
While reading, I felt that I might have enjoyed the book more if I had more background in modern art.
I don't, as my art history background is quite sparse and limited mostly to Eastern Europe and to architecture. This meant that, though I certainly know who Picasso and Matisse were, I feel that I might have appreciated the entire thing more with a deeper understanding of the art movement in that time and place.
Aug 24, Ingrid rated it really liked it. I just finished this in-depth look at Paul Rosenberg, famed French art dealer, through the eyes of the granddaughter who came to know him best posthumously. I loved Anne Sinclair's voice.
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She managed to relay a lot of French history in a manner that was captivating and enthralling. What I enjoyed most about the book was that it was neither a tale of just family, nor a tale of Nazi looting, rather it was a rich narrative of interwoven threads: family dynamics and secrets, the meaning of "mod Wow. What I enjoyed most about the book was that it was neither a tale of just family, nor a tale of Nazi looting, rather it was a rich narrative of interwoven threads: family dynamics and secrets, the meaning of "modern art," grasping her grandfather's personal sense of justice in trying to retrieve his stolen collection.
Sinclair's background as a journalist serves her well because even in the more history-heavy excerpts, I was engrossed. She approached her writing in a very poignant matter, even going so far as to question who these people she had grown up with really were. She dares to ask, "How daring was [Paul], really? Summers spent at Picasso's house, or having your childhood portrait done by Marie Laurencin! Or knowing Van Gogh's famed Postman was a gift to the Met by your family This is at the Barnes, no? Oct 22, Julie rated it liked it Shelves: biographies.
This was simply written as someone might when taking notes while researching their family history.
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The writing was simple, yet since it's an English translation of a French text, it's difficult to comment on the original text. I found great appreciation for the writers grandfather and his love of art. I'm a sucker for people who know their passion and act on it. He believed in the new impressionistic art before the rest of the world could grasp it.
He sold more traditional art in an effort to su This was simply written as someone might when taking notes while researching their family history. He sold more traditional art in an effort to support someone like Picasso so the artist could focus on his work. For a while, Picasso lived next door to the gallery and used to unveil paintings in progress through a window for him to see. And having Rodin's "The Thinker" greet everyone in the foyer the writer remembers this as a child, what a trip.
Walls lined with Iconic works. And interesting tidbits like Picasso's painting of mother and child being that of the authors mother and grandmother. Of course, this story highlights the atrocities of the Nazis and lost art work. It also speaks of the bravery of those that saved many pieces of art. It also shines light on Nazi collaborators as well as just opportunistic people that weren't collaborators, just greedy.
It also stumbles upon some family secrets that helped the writer put some family history into context, painful as it was to decide to share it with the world. I commend her for being truthful. This wasn't a book that swept me up into the narrative but it held my interest especially because of my love of art. Sep 18, Sharlene rated it liked it Shelves: first-reads , memoir , non-fiction.
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I received this book as the result of a FirstRead giveaway. I have to admit, I found that the first part of the book read more like a text book. Prepare yourself. It is dry. I started to warm up just before the halfway mark and found it easier to read. I wish I could say that I loved the family and warmed up to them but I found it more about facts than memories and less about who they were emotionally versus who they were in the art world. I do feel that Sinclair was exposed to an amazing era and I received this book as the result of a FirstRead giveaway.
I do feel that Sinclair was exposed to an amazing era and history but I did not feel that I got to see anything outside of the gallery or of her grandfather's life that was not tied into his quest for more art. I felt that his life was only about the gallery but didn't seem to include his family outside of discussions about what new piece he hung in their house. I see that he was a good businessman but I wonder, was he a good husband and father?
And forgive me, I understand the memoir was about his gallery but I wanted more The novel was translated from French and the editing was amazing. Smooth easy reading in regards to that. An interesting book, just a bit too dry for my taste. This is a sincere but not terribly moving or useful book. Anne Sinclair does a decent job of summarizing some of the key scholarly works on the theft of art works in France during WWII, and supplements this with memories of her grand-father, the major art dealer Paul Rosenberg.
In the course of her research in the family archives she finds out that her grand-mother had an affair, or at the very least a dalliance, with her grand-father's arch rival Georges Wildenstein. She agonizes briefly about This is a sincere but not terribly moving or useful book.
She agonizes briefly about whether to spill the beans or not, but if I'm able to bring it up, it's obviously because she chose to. Even the rich have unhappy marriages, why should it surprise her of all people? Sinclair sounds very fair-minded about all the protagonists of her story, but her narrative goes around in circles and for somebody who had the immense privilege of growing up surrounded by some of the iconic paintings and sculptures of the XIXth and XXth century, she doesn't have anything original to say about art or even how it affected her personally as a child.
Readable but flat. Mar 12, Meg rated it it was ok. I am glad I read this but clearly the subject matter is a bit dry. I was interested in the author and thought it would be an interesting biography to read. It reads as if it has been translated from French, which it has, and reads more as a research paper than family memories. The author is a well known french journalist. She came to the attention of Americans because her diplomat husband was accused of sexual misconduct a nicer phrase with a hotel maid.
He was detained and she put up 6 million I am glad I read this but clearly the subject matter is a bit dry. He was detained and she put up 6 million to obtain his release during the trial. He was found innocent but later in France found guilty of involvement in prostitution. Where there is lots of smoke?? This book has none of the juicy stuff, however it was interesting to learn about her grandfather as Picasso's only agent. I was curious to read of his experience as a prosperous jewish art dealer during the war, the theft of much of the art he represented, and his new start in New York City.
The story needed a little warmth in the telling. Again, maybe it was lost in translation. Dec 21, Judy G rated it liked it. For more information please refer to the information page Our Product. It looks like you're from Canada. Toggle navigation. Read-iculously Low Prices. View cart Add to wishlist Your Wishlists.
Add to cart. Add to wishlist Your Wishlists. On September 20, , one of the most famous European art dealers disembarked in New York, one of hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing Vichy France. As he fled, dozens of works were seized by Nazi forces, and the art dealer's own legacy was eradicated.
More than half a century later, Anne Sinclair uncovered a box filled with letters. To find out who my mother's father really was. Rosenberg's story is emblematic of millions of Jews, rich and poor, whose lives were indelibly altered by World War II, and Sinclair's journey to reclaim it paints a picture that reframes the history of twentieth-century art. You May Also Like. More info