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Jacques Gelman. Jacques Gelman (1909 or 1911 – July 22, 1986) [1] [2] was a producer of Mexican films and a collector of Mexican Art. Gelman was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia from a rich noble Jewish family who emigrated in Germany during the October Revolution (1917) . During the 1920s, he worked as a still photographer in Europe at a ...
Supporting the visual arts. The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation is funded by Jacques and Natasha Gelman who were world-renowned twentieth century art collectors.
Nov 26, 2008 · The paintings belonged to Jacques Gelman, a Russian-born producer of Mexican films who died in 1986, and his wife, Natasha, who jointly began amassing art after they were married in...
Beginning in the early 1940s, Jacques and Natasha Gelman formed what is arguably the strongest private collection, in the world, of the art of the School of Paris. The eighty-one paintings, drawings, and bronzes in the Gelman collection, by thirty European artists, provide a remarkable survey of modern art, mainly in France, during the early ...
Jacques and Natasha Gelman. St. Petersburg, Russia, 1909–Houston, 1986, and Czechoslovakia, 1912–Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1998. Beginning in the 1940s, Jacques and Natasha Gelman assembled three important and distinct collections.
Jul 24, 1986 · Jacques Gelman, a prominent collector of 20th-century art and for many years the partner and producer of Cantinflas, the Mexican comedian, died Wednesday at a hospital in Houston where he had...
Prior to her death in 1998, Natasha Gelman, with her late husband Jacques, amassed one of the most significant art collections in the world, including 95 works of Mexican modern art featuring paintings from Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Rufino Tamayo and 81 paintings and sculptures of European modern art.
