Picasso’s American Valentine
Julia May Boddewyn
Summary
- >> A New York gallery, a merchant and an agent.
- >> The third generation of the Dudensing family and the last son of Henri Matisse
- >> Picasso collectors across the Atlantic
- >> First exhibition and first great New York success
- >> Controversies and avant-garde
- >> The Famille des Saltimbanques and the Chester Dale collection
- >> New complicity: the merchants Dudensing and Rosenberg
- >> Second individual exhibition at Valentine
- >> Paul Guillaume, the French merchant who maintains the relationship with Picasso
- >> Third exhibition and Jeune fille devant un miroir
- >> Fourth exhibition around the work on paper
- >> Guernica on American tour
- >> The American Art Market in Wartime
“I do not want Picasso because I don’t know who to sell them too (sic),” Valentine Dudensing hastily wrote to Pierre Matisse in early November 1928. In his role as the Paris-based agent for the F. Valentine Dudensing Gallery, Pierre Matisse (1900–1989) scouted for artwork in galleries, auctions, and artists’ studios for Dudensing (1892–1967) to sell in New York.