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Galerie Bonnier Records of the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Galerie Bonnier
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Title: Records of Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Galerie Bonnier
Creator:
Miró, Joan, 1893-1983
Creator:
Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906
Creator:
Courthion, Pierre
Creator:
Derain, André, 1880-1954
Creator:
Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917
Creator:
Galerie Bonnier
Creator:
Galerie Louis Carré
Creator:
Galerie Durand-Ruel
Creator:
Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959
Creator:
Braque, Georges, 1882-1963
Creator:
Berggruen & Cie
Creator:
Monet, Claude, 1840-1926
Creator:
Musée Rodin
Creator:
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973
Creator:
Redon, Odilon, 1840-1916
Creator:
Svensk-franska konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden)
Creator:
Romdahl, Axel L. (Axel Ludvig), 1880-1951
Creator:
Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903
Creator:
Hoppe, Ragnar, 1885-1967
Creator:
Kahnweiler, Daniel Henry, 1884-1979
Creator:
Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944
Creator:
Klee, Paul, 1879-1940
Creator:
Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954
Creator:
MM. Bernheim Jeune & cie (Paris, France)
Identifier/Call Number: 990074
Physical Description:
331 box(es)
Date (inclusive): 1918-1997
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.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in Swedish and French.
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
Arranged in 2 series:
Series I. Galerie Bonnier records, 1961-1997;
Series II. Svensk-franska Konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden) records, 1918-1974
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.
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).
Received in three acquisitions in 1999, 2003 and 2005.
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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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Art -- Expertising
Art dealers -- Switzerland
Art galleries, Commercial
Art, Modern -- Collectors and collecting
Art dealers -- Sweden
Photographic prints
Merchandise inventories
Video recordings
Photographs, Original
Drawings, European -- Collectors and collecting
Collectors and collecting
Ledgers (account books)
Paintings, European -- Collectors and collecting
Galerie Bonnier
Svensk-franska konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden)