Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Picasso, portrait of a friendship.
By Bernadette Caille
Summary
- >> First gallery, rue Vignon, the discovery of cubism
- >> A deliberately international gallery
- >> Birth of a publishing house: artists' books
- >> First World War, exile and collection under receivership
- >> Abandoned artists, a very distressed merchant
- >> Second gallery, rue d’Astorg, and economic crisis
- >> Kahnweiler, the only Picasso dealer after the war, and the Louise Leiris gallery, rue de Monceau.
Nothing predisposed Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler to become one of the most iconic art dealers of the 20th century, other than his wide culture and his early interest in painting.
He was born into an affluent German family, whose wealth enabled him to receive an allowance for a year while he tried his luck at running an avant-garde gallery.