Alexandre Natanson
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Alexandre Natanson (September 27, 1866 in Warsaw - March 12, 1938 in Paris) was a lawyer, art collector and publisher of La Revue blanche et Le Cri de Paris.
Biography
Son of the banker Adam Natanson and Anne Reich, Alexandre had two brothers, Thadée et Louis-Alfred.
He attended high school at lycée Condorcet in Paris, where he met Édouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Marcel Proust and Daniel Halévy before studying law and becoming a lawyer.
He and his brothers Thadée et Louis-Alfred created the artistic literary review La Revue blanche.[1]
He also founded Cri de Paris.[2]
Natanson collected art, and on May 16, 1929, he sold off part of his collection at l'Hôtel Drouot.[3][4]
He married Sara Olga Cahn, and the couple had four children, Evelyn[e] Nattier-Natanson (1891-1962), ; Bolette Natanson (1892-1936),[5] Georgette (1894-1969) and Marcelle.<
Alexandre Natanson was buried at Montmartre cemetery on March 15, 1936.[6]