Adolphe Basler

In the 1920s, he ran the Galerie de Sèvres, where he showed works by Raoul Dufy, Maurice Utrillo and Othon Coubine.

[2][3] Basler moved in Parisian artistic circles in the Montparnasse district around Modigliani, Jules Pascin, André Salmon, Rudolf Levy and others.

Basler wrote a series of essays and books on classical modern artists, including André Derain,[4] Charles Despiau, Henri Matisse, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Rousseau, Maurice Utrillo and Suzanne Valadon, as well as La Peniture indépendante en France and La Sculpture Moderne en France, which also dealt with Wilhelm Lehmbruck.

Basler also wrote for the magazines Die Aktion, Der Cicerone, La Revue blanche, Latinité, Les Soirées de Paris and Mercure de France, among others; he also corresponded with Derain, Vlaminck, Dufy, Apollinaire, Besson, Salmon, Jacob, Carco, Feneon, Cassirer and Alfred Stieglitz.

Basler owned a number of works by his artist friends, such as the drawings Frauenkopf and Still Life with Bottle and a Pot of Hyacinths[8] by Picasso.