Art dealer’s family native of Besançon which can be traced from the late XVIIIth century at the head of a business of painting supplies (frames and colours for the artists)."
Bernheim-Jeune (said Bernheim)
Succeeding Joseph Bernheim (1799 1859), his son Alexandre Bernheim (1839-1915) friend of Delacroix, Corot and Gustave Courbet, came to settle down in Paris in 1863, first at n°8 rue Lafitte (on the advice of his fellow countryman of Besançon, G. Courbet). This is were Alexandre Bernheim presents the impressionists in 1874. Transferred in 1906 to n°25 boulevard de la Madeleine and 15 rue Richepanse, the Bernheim gallery takes its real development under the supervision of Alexandre Bernheim’s sons, Josse Bernheim-Jeune (1870-1941) and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune (1870-1953). They organised (in particular) in 1901, the first Van Gogh exhibition, present Bonnard and Vuillard in 1906, Cézanne and Cross (1907), Seurat and Van Dongen (1908), Matisse (1910), Boundin, the ʺItalian Futuristsʺ (1912), Le Douanier Rousseau (1916), R.Dufy and Vlaminck (1921), Modigliani (1922), Utrillo (1923), Marquet (1925), Gauguin (1930), having settled down avenue Matignon (1925)ʺ.
Bernheim-Jeune at the corner of avenue Matignon and rue du faubourg Saint-Honoré in 1925
“Bernheim-Jeune indeed, was the first gallery to settle down avenue Matignon (at the corner of avenue Matignon and rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré). Its new premises were inaugurated by Gaston Doumergue, President of the French Republic, for the opening of the exhibition: ʺMasterpieces of the XIXth and XXth centuriesʺ.”
MM. Bernheim-Jeune organized several hundreds of exhibitions, the most important of which were : in 1926, Raoul Dufy, Cézanne, The drawings of Seurat; in 1927 Utrillo, Bonnard; in 1928, Vlaminck, Jacques Villon, Bonnard; in 1929, Gromaire, Berthe Morisot, Matisse, Van Gogh, Boudin, Vlaminck; in 1933, Marquet and Vlamminck; in 1934, "A Hundred years of French portraits" (1800-1900); in 1935, Jongkind and the ʺItalian Futuristsʺ; in 1936, ʺMy doctor the wineʺ (twenty Raoul Dufy’s watercolors), "A Hundred years of theater, Music hall and circus"; in 1937, Retrospective of H.E. Cross, Gericault, Marquet; in 1938, Vuillard, forty Cézanne’s watercolors, Renoir Portrait painter, Utrillo; in 1939, Tribute to Cézanne; in 1946, Bonnard; in 1948, "the Woman, the Relaxed rhythm of life"; in 1949, "Magicians of the paint"; in 1950, Marquet, Bonnard; in 1951, "Rhythms and colors"; in 1952, Constantin Guys, "Portraits painter; in 1953, A Hundred and fifty years of drawings", Vuillard; in 1954, Gros-Gericaut-Delacroix, "The nude through ages", Salvador Dali (jewels); in 1956, tribute to Bonnard, Cézanne’s watercolor; in 1958, Matisse; in 1959, Raoul Dufy; in 1960, Cézanne, watercolorist and painter; in 1962, "A Hundred years of portraits", "the Circus"; in 1963, Odilon Redon; in 1964, Landscapes of France; in 1966, "A Hundred of the watercolors"; in 1967, "Blow of hat to Bonnard", Julie’s Garland; in 1969, "Blow of hat to Vuillard"; in 1970, Matisse; in 1971, Cézanne; in 1972, Marquet; in 1973, Vuillard, etc.