Armand Dorville

[1] Armand Dorville's art collection included 450 works by Bonnard, Vuillard, Renoir, Manet, Signac, Caillebotte, Daumier, Degas, Vallotton,[2][3] Delacroix, Rodin, Carpeaux and also an artist he particularly liked, Constantin Guys.

Under the title "a Parisian amateur's cabinet", the main part, from June 24 to 27, 1942 at the Hotel Savoy in Nice, included 450 works by Bonnard, Vuillard,[7] Renoir, Manet, Signac, Caillebotte, Daumier, Degas, Vallotton, Delacroix, Rodin, Carpeaux and Constantin Guys.

[16][17][18] On January 22, 2020 in Berlin, in the presence of Monika Grütters, German Minister of Culture, two paintings by the painter Jean-Louis Forain (1852-1931) and one by Constantin Guys (1802-1892) were to be officially returned to Dorville's heirs.

[21] Other paintings, including Henri Fantin-Latour's Still Life with Roses and Fruit, acquired at the Hotel de Savoy, Nice auction in 1942, are currently in European[22] or American museums[23] or in private collections.

[25] In October 2021 Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie restituted the Camille Pissarro painting, "A Square in La Roche-Guyon" (1867) to the Dorville heirs, and then purchased it back from them as it was a "core holding".

black and white drawing of Armand Dorville signed "JP"
Drawing of Armand Dorville