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Aug 7, 2019 · The actor best known for playing iconic villains and anti-heroes in films like “Double Indemnity” and “Little Caesar” was also a path-breaking art collector.
Forty paintings from the Edward G. Robinson collection, March 4-April 12, 1953 1953 Out of print, 12 pages
Beautifully displayed in a spacious house and private gallery in Beverly Hills, picture after picture bespeaks the love and discrimination that has gone into its selection. The forty paintings chosen for the present exhibition represent more than half the whole collection.
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Overview: 40 paintings lent by actor Edward G. Robinson and his wife Gladys, a painter, included works by Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and the American painters Grant Wood and Yasuo Kuniyoshi.
Mar 22, 2024 · Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973. Robinson was an art collector, author and actor. He was born, Emanuel Goldenberg, in Romania. He collected work by French pre-impressionists, impressionist, post-impressionist, and modernists.
He was a passionate art collector, eventually building up a significant private collection. In 1956, however, he was forced to sell his collection to pay for his divorce settlement with Gladys Robinson; his finances had also suffered due to underemployment in the early 1950s.
Feb 1, 2012 · Through a keen eye and escalating wages young Robinson graduated from postcards to prints to original paintings by the masters, eventually building an extremely valuable collection that featured work by many legendary Impressionist painters.
