La Peau de l’Ours, André Level and Pablo Picasso
by Verane Tasseau
Summary
- >> Create a collection of art with a few friends
- >> Manage a collection of unknown works
- >> An eclectic panorama of the young painting of the early 20th century
- >> In the choices, Picasso wins
- >> The exceptional auction of La peau de l’ours
- >> Triumphal Sale with the Tout Paris
- >> Rating and success for Picasso
- >> International debut
- >> Speculation and retribution of the artists on the sale, a first step in the artistic right
- >> The taste of the collection as a ferment of a friendship
- >> First problems with Kahnweiler, Level finds solutions
- >> After learning, Level creates his own collection
- >> The eclectic choices of a true art lover
André Level (1863-1946), was a collector, businessman and financier, but above all an enlightened amateur. He did not imagine, when he founded with a few friends the Association La Peau de l’Ours in 1904, that he would, ten years later, be at the origin of an unprecedented speculative operation which was to place modern art at the forefront of the artistic scene and to offer Picasso his first great public success.