A Family Memoir of Art and War
The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 23, 2014
On 1940, Paul Rosenberg, one of the most famous European art dealers came to New York along with hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing Vichy, France. Although he managed to save his family, he left behind his Paris gallery and all his paintings—modern masterpieces by Cézanne, Monet, Sisley, and others, which were seized by the Nazis. His granddaughter, Anne Sinclair, draws on his intimate correspondence with Picasso, Matisse, Braque, and others to examine the life of a legendary member of the Parisian art scene. She tells the story in My Grandfather’s Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War.
