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1973
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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.
Aug 7, 2019 · Robinson’s illustrious collection began modestly a few years before he played Little Caesar, with a painting of a cow. The bovine portrait by an anonymous artist cost two dollars at auction, and the actor proudly installed it alongside his reproductions of works by Rembrandt and Henri Matisse .
Sep 22, 2010 · Edward G. Robinson with some of his prized art works. Photograph from LIFE magazine online digital archive.
Feb 29, 2016 · While Edward G. Robinson is mostly known for playing gangsters and tough guys on the big screen, in real life he was a man of refined taste. He loved art and was Hollywood's first major art collector, owning quite an impressive collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings.
- Clarissa Saunders
Forty paintings from the Edward G. Robinson collection, March 4-April 12, 1953 1953 Out of print, 12 pages
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.
Feb 5, 2012 · The section by Jane Robinson includes a handful of small photos of the Robinson house showing their gallery, her husband's own studio, plus other areas of interest including Robinson's collection of pipes and canes and a very impressive book case.
