Caroline Moorehead

Picasso’s dealer

A review of My Grandfather’s Gallery, by Anne Sinclair. A portrait of an exceptional moment in French art – and its tragic unravelling

Paul Rosenberg with a Matisse painting in the 1930s. [Bridgeman Images / iStock / Getty Images] 
issue 04 October 2014

When she was four, Anne Sinclair had her portrait painted by Marie Laurencin. It is a charming picture, a little dark-brown-haired girl with a white bow, very blue eyes and a white and pink striped blouse, and it was commissioned by Sinclair’s grandfather, Paul Rosenberg, one of the handful of most influential Parisian art dealers of the 1920s and 1930s.

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