by Tatsiana Zhurauliova
Henry Pearlman in His Office at Eastern Cold Storage, New York, N.Y., Courtesy of The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation.
According to his recollections, Henry Pearlman became an art collector when he first saw Chaïm Soutine’s painting View of Ceret (c.1921-22) in the windows of the American Art Association–Anderson Galleries in New York (later Parke-Bernet). He purchased the painting in 1945, thus starting what would become one of the finest private collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in the United States. At the time Pearlman already owned a number of early Italian, French, and American genre paintings, but none of them elicited the same passionate response as the Soutine. The canvas, he stated, set him “on a road of adventure both exhilarating and satisfying.” Over the years, he collected over seventy masterpieces of modern art, including works by Paul Cézanne, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas , Paul Gauguin , Amedeo Modigliani, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh .
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