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Smith's Little Girl in Blue and
Marian Dale Scott's Stained Glass

Window.
Windsor
"Most of the paintings are very
colorful and show Stern's classical
n image of Canadian artist
taste," Des Rochers says. "He was
Goodridge Roberts, joined
not very interested in the abstract."
with 49 other works by
20th-century masters, soon will be
on display in Windsor. Although
The Nazi Effect
Roberts included a self-portrait
among his identifiable paintings,
Stern learned the art-business from
that piece and all the rest may
never have come to vast public
attention without catching the
eye of collector, art dealer and
patron Max Stern.
The artists — including Emily
Carr, Jean-Philippe Dallaire, John
Lyman and Jean-Paul Riopelle —
found rare opportunities for
recognition through Stern and his
Dominion Gallery of Fine Arts in
Montreal. While fellow art deal-
ers filled their spaces with paint-
ings by the old masters, Stern
(1904-1987) decided to showcase
more contemporary approaches
to canvas and brush.
What Stern valued is represent-
ed in the exhibit "Max Stern:
Collector, Art Dealer and
Patron," which will be featured
Max and Iris Stern looking at an ad in
Feb. 26-May 1 at the Art Gallery
the German art magazine Die Weltkunst
of Windsor. The exhibit, celebrat-
(c. 1950) about recovering works from
ing the centenary year of Stern's
the Stern collection confiscated by the
birth, was planned by Edith-Anne
Nazis.
Pageot, guest curator, and Jacques
Des Rochers, curator of Canadian
his father, who owned the Julius
art at the Montreal Museum of Fine
Arts (MMFA), sponsor of the exhibit Stern Gallery in Dusseldorf,
Germany. After his father's death in
and original presenter.
1934, Stern ran the business until
Each painting ultimately was
the Nazis ordered him to cease oper-
donated to the MMFA, the Mussee
ations.
d'art contemporain de Montreal or
The German dealer fled to save his
the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art
life, stopping in France and England
Gallery at Concordia University in
Montreal. Many donations and proj- before Canada, and in the process
lost valuable paintings amassed by
ects keep Stern's legacy current.
his family. He found work at
"This is the first exhibit of this
Montreal's Dominion Gallery of
type honoring Max Stern," says Des
Fine Arts started by Rose Millman
Rochers. "We wanted to demon-
strate his interest in living art, works and eventually bought the gallery
with his Swedish-born wife, Iris
completed by artists in their prime
Westerberg, in 1947.
during the 1940s and 1950s, and
The four-story building that
we've arranged the pieces chronolog-
ically."
housed the exhibit area had living
space on the top floor, where the
The collection includes Alfred
Pellan's Still Life with Pipe, Mabel
Sterns kept their private collection of
Canadian art, later donated to art
May's View From My Studio, Jori

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