Auguste Pellerin

Auguste Pellerin (20 February 1853, Paris - 18 October 1929, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French entrepreneur and art collector.

His successful enterprise included factories in France, England, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.

He soon began to collect works by established painters such as Antoine Vollon und Jean Jacques Henner.

On 2 February 1910, 35 of Pellerin's Manets were sold for 1,000,000 francs to a consortium of art dealers that included Bernheim-Jeune, Durand-Ruel, and Paul Cassirer, a move that stirred controversy.

In 1982 his heirs gave 14 of the most important Cézanne paintings in the remaining collection to French state museums.