Frank Burty Haviland

Frank Burty Haviland, Frank Burty or Frank Haviland, (* October 15, 1886 in Limoges, † 1971 in Perpignan ) was an American- French cubist painter, friend of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque as well as a collector of African art. He signed with " Frank Burty ". In later years he was co-founder and curator of the Museum of Art in Ceret.

Life and work

Frank Burty Haviland was the son of Charles Haviland (1839-1922) and Madeleine Burty ( 1860-1900 ). His father was the owner of the famous porcelain factory in Limoges Haviland & Co., his mother the daughter of the art critic Philippe Burty. His older brother Paul Haviland was a photographer and art critic.

Burty Haviland was educated strictly according to the conception of faith of the Quakers. After finishing school in Paris, he studied music with Ricardo Viñes, where he met Déodat de Séverac who introduced him to Manolo Hugue. They became friends, and by Manolo they were in close contact with the Cubist painters in Paris. In 1909 he bought Picasso's Factory in Horta de Ebro. 1910, the three traveled friends to southern France where Burty Haviland bought a monastery in Ceret, which was until 1914 the " École de Ceret ". She gathered the most important painters of the time such as Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Georges Braque, Max Jacob and Auguste Herbin. Burty Haviland married Joséphine Laporta in 1914, a young woman from Ceret.

This year Burty Haviland by Amedeo Modigliani was portrayed, and it is believed that the motive The smoking of Juan Gris from 1913 depicting him as well. Chaim Soutine's Le Rouquin of 1917/1919 is also regarded as his portrait. A bust was created by his friend Manolo Hugue.

In April 1914 he had a solo exhibition at Alfred Stieglitz's gallery 291 in New York City. A year later, his work was exhibited in the first exhibition of Marius de Zayas ' Modern Gallery in New York City, along with works by Picasso, Braque, de Zayas, Francis Picabia and others. The Modern Gallery presented his work before in other exhibitions in the coming years. In November 1917 Burty had a solo exhibition at the Galerias Dalmau in Barcelona and 1921 in the Brummer Gallery in New York. His later style was influenced more classic and moved away from Cubism.

Burty Haviland spent most of his life in Ceret, and he was with the painter Pierre Brune (1887-1956) in 1948, the driving force behind the planning of the Musée d' Art Moderne de Ceret, which was established in 1950. It helped that 14 works by Henri Matisse and 53 by Picasso were donated to the museum by the artists. As curator of the museum he worked from 1957 to 1961. The museum acquired in 2008 the Burty archive, which includes 88 paintings, 727 drawings and 34 etchings. A retrospective, the museum in Ceret of December 5, 2009 until June 6, 2010.