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- - The typical French connoisseur, he worked for the main auction house in Paris the Hotel Drouot, he was director of the Galerie Georges Petit and then had his own
and later president of the Art Editor Syndicates.
He was dedicated to sell to naive and rich Americans as many Corots as possible,
all of them of course good ones.
Expert in French painting of the 19th ct. main consultant for the Hotel Drouot auction house in Paris.
Collaborated with the Nazis ERR on the confiscated Jewish treasures, many sales to Wüster, Brüschwiler and Bruno Lohse, may have been involved in the seizure of the
Schloss Collection as an informer.
His son inherited the gallery and the thing went on a few more years until the 70´s.
he most be named because many of the works by Modigliani that went in auction or to the market in France until the 30's to 50's had an expertise by them.
many Modigliani paintings have a certificate by him.
An interesting link on how he worked LINK
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Actually his opinion is perfect to fill the notes & records for the auction houses.
But only when it also have the Ceroni name in the list...
If a Modigliani painting only bears the opinion by Schoeller (son or father, the same goes) , it will never hit the floor of the main auction houses
Definitively not a reliable or trustworthy source for cataloging.
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Some works authenticated by him:
(sorry no more data from his side, just expertises with signature I have seen, his files must be in some basement or in other expert hands so are unavailable
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