GIFTS

In 2004, the gifts of three major donors served to enrich the museum’s holdings in modern art from the early 20th century to the 1950s and ’60s. These gifts built on those previously made by Georges and Lia Coppel for the work of Jeanne Coppel and by Brigitte Coudrain for that of Johnny Friedlaender, which allowed the museum to organise a new collection focusing on collages and engravings.

ANONYMOUS GIFTS

Armand Guillaumin
Ruins of the Château of Crozant, 1898
Oil on canvas,
Pointe Notre-Dame de Trayas, 1913
Oil on canvas

Frédéric Fiebig
Pont de la Tournelle, 1909
Oil on cardboarde

André Derain
Pastoral Scene,1919-20
Oil on canvas

Georges Papazoff
Imaginary Landscape, 1931 – 1932
Oil on canvas 

Antonio Segui
City Segments,, 9. August 1989
Acrylic, pastel and oil on canvas

CAMILLE BOURNIQUEL GIFT

Camille Bourniquel, a poet and writer, for many years the literary editor of the magazine Esprit, first under Emmanuel Mounier and later alongside Albert Béguin, is one of a handful of major critics, with Gaston Diehl and Pierre Francastel, specialising in painters of the French tradition. His gift to the museum consists of a series of works by Alfred Manessier, Gustave Singier and Elvire Jan.

Alfred Manessie
Man with a Branch, 1942
Oil on cardboard

Alfred Manessier
Blue Composition,, 1942
Oil on canvas 

Alfred Manessier
Spring, 1968
Oil on canvas 

Alfred Manessier
Hearth in Le Bignon,, 1975
Watercolour on paper

Elvire Jan
Das Atelier II, 1942
Oil on canvas 

Gustave Singier
Child Playing with Building Blocks, 1943
Watercolour

GIFT OF THE ETIENNE FAMILY, Paris

This gift mainly consists of works by Hans Reichel (Würzburg, 1892–Paris, 1958), joining the museum’s already considerable collection of this artist’s work, which includes the celebrated Gurs Notebook containing watercolours executed in 1941–42 by Reichel during his internment at the Gurs camp in southwestern France. These works entered the museum’s collections thanks to a gift by the artist’s wife, Nathalie Schimek-Reichel (1976). In honour of this occasion, the Unterlinden Museum organised a retrospective of the artist’s work.

JEAN-PAUL PERSON COLLECTION

Thanks to its association with a particularly avid collector, the Société Schongauer has received a major gift from the collection of Jean-Paul Person.

Eugène CARRIÈRE, 
Jean-René Carrière Playing the Violin,, c. 1900
Oil on canvas

Jean DEGOTTEX,
Metagraphics I, 1960
Oil on cardboard

Jean DEGOTTEX,
Pink-Black Suite. August 1964
Oil on paperboard, marouflaged

André DERAIN,
Der Gladiator, after 1915
Bronze

André DERAIN,
Profil, c. 1930
Watercolour on paper

Bernard FRIZE,
Untamed, 1983
Acrylic and varnish on canvas

Simon HANTAÏ,
Untitled, 1957
Öl auf Leinwand

André LANSKOY,
Subscription for an Attack, 1967
Oil on canvas

Fernando LERIN,
Untitled, c. 1968
Pastel

Marcelle LOUBCHANSKY,
Bathseba, 1956
Oil on canvas

Louis NALLARD,
She’s Waiting. Homage to Mathias Grünewald and Francisco Goya, 1971
Oil on canvas

NUNZIO,
Untitled, 2003
Komposition auf Holz

Bernard SABY,
Untitled, 1955
Oil on canvas

Bernard SABY,
Untitled, 1959
Oil on canvas

SARKIS,
Being Alone, 1964-65
Mixed techniques

Séraphine de SENLIS,
Dahlias, c. 1915
Oil on wood

While pursuing his career as a journalist, Jean-Paul Person has built up a considerable collection of works, all of which he considers as impulsive acquisitions, allowing himself to be guided by his aesthetic instincts, which have developed in different directions throughout his life. His collection comprises 80 works by 50 artists (mostly paintings, with a few sculptures and drawings) reflecting his personal tastes but also a keen appreciation of a number of major movements having traversed the French artistic scene from the late 19th century until the present.

“It’s kind of an irrational passion which takes over my whole being; these paintings are my friends. In a painting, there is first of all the man whom I discover there. I do not acquire paintings to decorate the walls; instead, I see them as a part of my life. Of course, I cannot claim to have acquired only important works, but one thing is certain: in my collection, there are only paintings by genuine painters, those who paint with their heart and their soul, those for whom painting is their reason for living. During this exhibition, I want visitors to be happy when standing before my paintings.”

Excerpt from the catalogue of the exhibition Jean-Paul Person Collection: Twentieth-Century Works, 2004.

RECENT ACQUISITIONS

ACQUISITIONS IN 2004

Alfred Manessier
Grande Trappe, 1943
Watercolour on paper

Jean Le Moal
Reading,1943
Oil on canevas

Max Beckmann
The Descent from the Cross, 1918
Drawing

Jan Elvire
Mozart, 1962
Oil on canevas

Jean Fautrier
Heads of Hostages, c 1944
Drawing

ACQUISITIONS IN 2006

Paul Rebeyrolle,
Origine, 2000
Purchased by the Société Schongauer