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Rare and important twelve-panel screen, of the “hundred birds”
China, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period (1723 - 1735), dated 1725
Huanghuali, polychrome Coromandel lacquer on a gold background
H: 2.63 m, L: 7.25 m, Depth: 12cm
Donation Robert Rousset, 1984, Musée Guimet, MA 4986

Details Robert Rousset’s apartment in Neuilly, in the 1950s

With the death of Jean-Pierre on 22 October 2021, a great man of the - 2003), Arthur Sackler (1913 - 1987), Lionel Fournier (1943 - 2017);
Asian art world had passed away. He who was nicknamed "Le Grand his fellow dealers, William H. Wolff - "Willy" (1905 - 1991), Leighton R.
Buddha” in the milieu was respected by all for his wisdom, his eye and Longhi and James Lally in New York, Edward T. Chow (1910 - 1980)
his imposing size. Never for his ego. He never chased titles, much less in Geneva, C.C. Lai in Hong Kong, Giuseppe Eskenazi in London,
the status of “expert”. What was important to him? Jacques Barrère and Christian Deydier in Paris, Gisèle Croës in
To proudly count among his friends and acquaintances the curators Brussels, ...
and directors of museums all over the world: Sherman Lee (1918 -
2008) at the Cleveland Museum, the team at the Royal Ontario Also inherited from his uncle Robert, was Jean-Pierre's interest in
Museum, Vadime Elisseeff (1918 - 2002), Jean-François Jarrige tribal art which led him to navigate in this milieu where he had many
(1940 - 2014), Gilles Béguin, Jean-Paul Desroches, Jacques Giès friends: the sculptor and collector Jacques Lipchitz (1891 - 1973); the
(1950-2021), Sophie Makariou, Amina Okada, Pierre Baptiste at the psychoanalyst, art historian and collector Werner Muensterberger
Musée Guimet, to name but a few; the independent experts, Michel (1913 - 2011); the expert Jean-Roudillon (1924 - 2020); the very
Beurdeley (1911 - 2012), Guy Raindre (+ 2011), Guy Portier (1919 - important dealer Pierre Vérité (1900 -1992). The Fang masks that stood
2005) and his son Thierry; the great collectors, John D. Rockefeller alongside archaic Chinese bronzes in the apartment illustrated the
III (1906 - 1978), Henry Najer (1924 - 2007), Georges Halphen (1913 depth of their owner’s taste. Outside the busy activity of the gallery,

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