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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 Master checklist 3 pages Press release 1 page
Forty paintings from the Edward G. Robinson collection, March 4-April 12, 1953. Author. Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Date. 1953. Publisher. The Museum of Modern Art. Exhibition URL. www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3301. The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition history— from our founding in 1929 to the present—is. available online.
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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.
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.
Apr 3, 2023 · April 3, 2023. By Samantha Deutch, Digital Art History Lead, Frick Art Reference Library. In celebration of the centennial of the Frick Art Reference Library, peek into the past one hundred years of the library’s remarkable history through important places, people, and objects from the collections.
