This Rosenberg, brother of Paul, the New Yorker, famous gallery owner of Picasso, Braque, Matisse, is not the most revered of historical dealers.
Léonce has, it is true, left serious reasons for indignation in his wake.
At the end of the Great War, he participated as an expert in the ransacking of the gallery of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, a German national, whose funds had been seized and sold at auction as reparations.
Léonce (and Paul!) had bought the best at a low price.
Colleagues and artists had uttered cries from the aviary.
The outcry had just subsided, his fleeting admiration for Mussolini – he had called him a
“Cubist hero”
– would not help anything…
He did not lack flair, however, early professing a passion for Cubism and, after the war, for its synthetic developments.
His gallery, L'Effort moderne, established itself as an academy of the movement, exhibiting with method and pedagogy Auguste Herbin and Henri Laurens, Metzinger and Léger...
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