Alfred Lindon married into the Citroen family and built an important collection of modern art that was looted by the Nazis in occupied Paris during the Second World War.
10 Facts About Alfred Lindon
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Alfred Lindon lived to see some of his paintings returned, although others were returned to his heirs after his death.
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Alfred Lindon's father was Moses Lindenbaum, and his mother was Caroline Weil.
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Alfred Lindon's great-grandsons are the journalist and writer Mathieu Lindon, and the actor Vincent Lindon.
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Alfred Lindon was in partnership with Adolf Weil and Lewis Lindenbaum as a diamond merchant at 25 Hatton Garden, London, and 48 rue La Fayette, Paris, where they traded as Lindenbaum and Weil.
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Alfred Lindon abandoned his Polish nationality and became a British citizen.
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Provenance records suggest that Alfred Lindon began to be a serious buyer of art around the late 1920s or early 1930s.
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Alfred Lindon was rather fat because he ate too much.
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Alfred Lindon was fond of music and he read, but art was really the centre of his life.
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Vincent van Gogh's, Flowers in a Vase, from the Alfred Lindon collection, was one of 25 pictures from various sources exchanged by Goring for old master works from Galerie Fischer in 1941.