
Four works from the collection of Ambroise Vollard, one of the most important art dealers in Paris during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, will come up at Sotheby’s Modern evening auction in New York in May. The group is highlighted by a major still life by Paul Gauguin, one of the most significant by the artist to appear at auction, which hung on the walls of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris for almost 40 years since its founding in 1986.
Following years of legal proceedings, during which the heirs of Ambroise Vollard were represented by lawyers
including François Honnorat, a French court recently ruled that ownership of the works would be returned to
Vollard’s descendants. The collection includes works by Renoir and Cezanne.