DATASET: E. & A. Silberman Galleries and American museums

E. & A. Silberman Galleries was an art dealership owned by Abris and Elkin Silberman.  This dataset includes artworks in American museums that mention Silberman in the ownership history.

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Raphaël Gérard

14.09.2018 till 07.01.2019

Gurlitt: Status Report

An Art Dealer in Nazi Germany

What does it mean to find the name Raphaël Gérard in a provenance?

1. The art dealer Raphaël Gérard appears in the provenance of an astonishing number of artworks in the Gurlitt: Status Report An Art Dealer in Nazi Germany expo in Berlin. This close collaboration with Gurlitt suggests that more research would be useful.

© Gurlitt Provenance Research Project Object record excerpt for Lost Art ID: 532973 

Gustave Courbet
Portrait of a woman (Portait of the Artist’s Sister Juliette?)
Provenance:
(…)
By latest 28 April 1944: Raphaël Gerard, Paris (per Gurlitt Papers)
After September 1953: Hildebrand Gurlitt, Dusseldorf (per Gurlitt Papers)
Thence by descent to Cornelius Gurlitt, Munich/Salzburg

From 6 May 2014: Estate of Cornelius Gurlitt

© Gurlitt Provenance Research Project Object record excerpt for Lost Art ID: 533086

Provenance:
(…)
By latest 28 April 1944: Raphaël Gerard, Paris (per Gurlitt Papers)
After September 1953: Hildebrand Gurlitt, Dusseldorf (per Gurlitt Papers)
Thence by descent to Cornelius Gurlitt, Munich/Salzburg
From 6 May 2014: Estate of Cornelius Gurlitt

2. The art dealer Raphaël Gérard is known to have dealt in "confiscated pictures" and to have used aliases.

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Raphael Gérard: “closely connected with German looting in France” “used the names HERMSEN and SCHEOLLER” NARA M1946. denazification orders, custody receipts, property cards, Jewish restitution claim records, and other records.  - NARA/Fold3