Memories of merchants of paintings

Paul Duran-Ruel and Ambruaz Vollar-merchants of works of art, whose names are inextricably linked with the history of the main avant-garde trends in the art of the late XIX-the first half of the XX century. Moreover, it is not known how the fate of the brave experimenters would have developed, choose the famous Parisian marshanes a more reliable source of investment than the work of rejected artists. History placed everything in places, awarded with financial success and loud glory and “outcast artists” - Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezann and many others, and their brave patrons.
Vollara and Duran-Ruel, people very different in nature and outlook on life, unite their devotion to art, business flair and the ability to take risks-the qualities that allowed both of them, each in their own way, and have an impact on the development of art, and To make a state of purchases and sales of “new art” at a time when it was just beginning to turn into a large international business