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Maurice Rheims (4 January 1910 – 6 March 2003) was a French art auctioneer, art historian and novelist, born in Versailles. He administered the estate of the painter Pablo Picasso.
Maurice Prosper Gilles Rheims, né le 4 janvier 1910 à Versailles et mort le 6 mars 2003 à Paris, est un commissaire-priseur, historien d'art et écrivain français, membre de l’Académie française.
Mar 6, 2003 · Overview. Auctioneer, art collector and writer on art. Rheims hailed from an Alsatian Jewish family. His father Léon Rheims, was a general in the French army, a close friend of Marshal Philippe Pétain, and a hero who suffered a gassing at Douaumont and was wounded at the battle of Verdun.
Le despotisme d'un directeur, d'un chef de service. Lorrain d'origine, né à Versailles, le 4 janvier 1910. Issu d'une famille de minotiers et de fonctionnaires. Études secondaires au lycée Janson de Sailly. Diplômes de l'École du Louvre et de l'École des hautes études.
Mar 10, 2003 · Maurice Rheims, auctioneer and writer: born Versailles, France 4 January 1910; married (two daughters, and one son deceased); died Paris 6 March 2003. "Second-hand junk dealer in the...
Rheims was a well-known fine-art auctioneer in France who also wrote books about art, as well as fiction. Educated at the Louvre and the Sorbonne, he began dealing in fine art as a teenager and had steady business as an auctioneer in Paris from 1935 to 1972, a career interrupted only by World War II.
Maurice Rheims has 67 books on Goodreads with 144 ratings. Maurice Rheims’s most popular book is The Age of Art Nouveau. European and American Arts in 1900.
