11 Facts About Henry Pearlman

Henry Pearlman was a Brooklyn-born, self-made businessman, and collector of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.

Henry Pearlman quickly made connections in the New York art world and traded his decorative collection for carefully selected examples of modern works by impressionist, post-impressionist and expressionist European artists.

Henry Pearlman offered a combination of paintings and cash to acquire the long lost painting, the last time.

Also in 1950, with the advice of noted Cezanne specialist John Rewald, Henry Pearlman made his first purchase of a Cezanne watercolor, Cistern in the Park of Chateau Noir.

Henry Pearlman continued to build his collection for the three remaining decades of his life.

Henry Pearlman lent financial and other support to artists, including Kokoschka and Jacques Lipchitz, whose studio was destroyed by fire in 1952.

The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation was established in 1955 as a not-for-profit organization and is the current owner of the collection.

In 1961 Henry Pearlman began making summer loans to museums, starting with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition" series, in part so that the works would be safe and seen while he and Rose were in Croton.

Henry Pearlman spent much of the last year of his life organizing an exhibition of the collection at the Brooklyn Museum, which toured after his death to Princeton, Utica, Williamstown and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.

In 2014, the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation and the Princeton University Art Museum initiated a tour of the collection, including its first exhibitions outside the United States.

Cezanne in Focus: Watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection.