Galerie Bonnier Records of the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Galerie Bonnier, 1918-1997

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Summary

Title:
Records of Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Galerie Bonnier
Dates:
1918-1997
Creators:
Miró, Joan, 1893-1983, Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906, Courthion, Pierre, Derain, André, 1880-1954, Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917, Galerie Bonnier, Galerie Louis Carré, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959, Braque, Georges, 1882-1963, Berggruen & Cie, Monet, Claude, 1840-1926, Musée Rodin, Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973, Redon, Odilon, 1840-1916, Svensk-franska konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden), Romdahl, Axel L. (Axel Ludvig), 1880-1951, Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903, Hoppe, Ragnar, 1885-1967, Kahnweiler, Daniel Henry, 1884-1979, Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944, Klee, Paul, 1879-1940, Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954, and MM. Bernheim Jeune & cie (Paris, France)
Abstract:
Complete business records of the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Sweden (1918-1974) and the successor gallery, Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland (1961-1997). The combined galleries dealt in Impressionist, Post-impressionist, Cubist, German Expressionist, and early abstract art.
Extent:
331 box(es)
Language:
Collection material is in Swedish and French.
Preferred citation:

Records of the Svensk-Fransk Konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Galerie Bonnier, 1918-1997, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 990074.

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa990074

Background

Scope and content:

The archive contains the complete business records of the Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland (1961-1997) and the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Sweden (1918-1974). The combined galleries dealt in Impressionist, Postimpressionist, Cubist, German Expressionist, and early abstract art. Important artists who figure as correspondents as well as subjects in the records include Bonnard, Braque, Cézanne, Degas, Derain, Friesz, Gauguin, Gleizes, Gris, Kandinsky, Klee, Leger, Matisse, Miró, Modigliani, Monet, Picasso, Pissarro, Redon, Rodin, and Rouault. Records include reports and records from the shareholder's meetings; notary deeds; account books with a book of buyer's accounts; books of inventories (arranged alphabetically by artist's name) documenting transactions with other galleries including Bernheim-Jeune and Durand-Ruel; inventories of works bought or accepted on consignment including those from Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler; invoices after 1930; index card files; correspondence; photographic documentation; press clippings; exhibition and auction catalogs. Includes a dossier of special files (organized by general topic) that contains letters in which paintings of contested authorship or provenance were authenticated by a range of experts that includes Pierre Courthion, Musée Rodin, Jean Ronfort, Pola Gauguin, Bernheim-Jeune, and Bernard Berenson. Correspondents consist of art critics such as Ragnar Hoppe, Gregor Paulson, and Axel Romdahl and art houses such as Bernheim-Jeune, Edmond Sagot, Walter Halvorsen, Valori Plastici, D.H. Kahnweiler, Durand-Ruel, Paul Rosenberg, Galerie Louis Carré, Berggruen & Cie, Pierre Courthion, and Michel Courturier.

Biographical / historical:

Svenska-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, was founded in 1918 by Gosta Olsen. The gallery merged with Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, in 1973. Galerie Bonnier was founded in Lausanne in 1961 by Jan Runnqvist, son of Harry Runnqvist, who was Olsen's partner in Stockholm. Galerie Bonnier moved to Geneva in 1969. Between 1964 and 1973, when his father died, Jan Runnqvist directed both galleries until 1973 when he closed Svensk-Franska and moved all business records to Geneva. The combined galleries handled a range of modern art, from Impressionism to early abstract art.

Acquisition information:
Received in three acquisitions in 1999, 2003 and 2005.
Processing information:

Collection is partially processed. One videotape was received from Jann Runnqvist in 2003 and added to the archive. Additions received in 2005 are not yet processed or inventoried (ADDS 2).

Arrangement:

Arranged in 2 series: Series I. Galerie Bonnier records, 1961-1997; Series II. Svensk-franska Konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden) records, 1918-1974

Physical location:
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About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
J. Gibbs.
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-10-17 09:31:37 -0700 .

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Preferred citation:

Records of the Svensk-Fransk Konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Galerie Bonnier, 1918-1997, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 990074.

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa990074

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