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Informationen zum Autor Anne Sinclair is a New Zealand born Australian with a passion for travel. After residing in Canada for a year, the author returned to Auckland before heading to Australia for a working holiday. Her then partner, Bob, joined her in Surfers Paradise and after a year they went back to their hometown of Auckland where they married before again returning to live on the Gold Coast. Taking four years out of a forty-year residency, they worked in Lae and Rabaul, New Guinea. Back on the Gold Coast once more, they established businesses, raised their family and involved themselves in Surf Lifesaving and Rugby Union. Following retirement and the death of her husband, the author moved north to the Sunshine Coast and at the request of family, wrote of her husband's life. This launched Anne into the novel which she describes as 'faction'. Now an octogenarian, her yearning desire to travel and visit more of the world, remains. Klappentext " My Grandfather's Gallery tells Paul Rosenberg's story in bits and pieces that construct a life and a legend through association . . . A detailed and important record of twentieth century art." - The Boston Globe On September 20, 1940, one of the most famous European art dealers disembarked in New York, one of hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing Vichy France. Leaving behind his beloved Paris gallery, Paul Rosenberg had managed to save his family, but his paintings--modern masterpieces by the likes of Cézanne, Monet, and Sisley--were not so fortunate. As he fled, dozens of works were seized by Nazi forces, and the art dealer's own legacy was eradicated. More than half a century later, Anne Sinclair uncovered a box filled with letters. "Curious in spite of myself," she writes, "I plunged into these archives, in search of the story of my family. To find out who my mother's father really was." Drawing on Rosenberg's intimate correspondence with Picasso, Matisse, Braque, and others, My Grandfather's Gallery takes us through the life of a legendary member of the Parisian art scene. Rosenberg's story is emblematic of millions of Jews, rich and poor, whose lives were indelibly altered by World War II, and Sinclair's journey to reclaim it paints a picture that reframes the history of twentieth-century art. ...
