Christie's - The Wildenstein Collection



		Daniel Wildenstein (1917-2001) was born to Georges and Jane Wildenstein in Verrières-le-Buisson, near Paris. Educated at the Sorbonne, he joined the family business in New York in 1940. He continued to expand his family's collections and published catalogues on the works of Monet, Renoir and others. At the Wildenstein Institute, Daniel Wildenstein revised and expanded the catalogues raisonnés on Chardin, Gauguin, Houdon, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Redon, Renoir, Hubert Robert, Van Dongen, Vigée Le Brun and Vlaminck. Like his father, Daniel was elected Membre Libre de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France.