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About the book >.>.> Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939) was without question the most influential art dealer in Paris at the turn of the twentieth cen- tury. His activities as promoter of artists author and publisher of many of the landmark prints and illustrated books of his epoch earn him a singular place in the history of art. Vollard’s groundbreaking 1895 exhibition of the works of Paul C?zanne established the artist’s reputation and proclaimed the twenty- nine-year-old Vollard a major new presence in the Paris art world. Throughout the remainder of the decade Vollard organized significant displays of the Nabis and of the works of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. He gave Pablo Picasso his first Paris exhibition in 190r and Henri Matisse his first solo exhibition in 1904 and he commissioned Andr? Derain to paint his colorful London series of Thames River pictures (1906-7). At the time of his death in 1939 Vollard was still busy selling art and producing editions of sculpture prints and illustrated books. Despite his importance in shaping the direction of mod- ern art this enterprising and perspicacious man has remained something of an enigma. In organizing the exhibition our curators have set out to take a closer look at Vollard and his accomplishments drawing on the voluminous archives of his papers that were acquired for the Direction des Mus?es de France and the Mus?e d’Orsay in 1989. Although madden- ingly incomplete and at times cryptic these fascinating doc- uments contain an enormous trove of information. The Vollard Archives along with archives of artists and other F resources have enabled the many authors of this catalogue to arrive at fresh insights into Vollard’s activities his relation- P ships with artists. (OS)