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About Michel Jules Strauss
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Strauss comes from one of those cosmopolitan Jewish families that played such an important role in 19th- and early-20th-century Europe. His paternal grandfather was Jules Strauss, an art collector who lived on the Avenue Foch in Paris, buying Old Masters as well as Monet, Degas and Cezanne, and who is said to have found the perfect 16th-century Florentine frame for Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks and donated it to the Louvre.
On his mother’s side, his grandfather was a Russian baron whose fortune was launched when he won a rare concession from the Tsar to sell vodka to the Russian army during the Crimean war. His mother herself was a champion French skier in the 1930s, who managed to escape France with her young son in 1941, eventually ending up in an apartment at the Carlyle Hotel.
Strauss joined Sotheby’s at the right time to be part of history, as the centuries-old but local firm evolved into the global art-market behemoth that it is today. He was there when Sotheby’s held its first specialist sale -- typically, everything was sold all at once -- and in 1967, responding to the demand of a publicity-shy U.S. collector, he came up with the now commonplace idea of telephone bidding. He helped take Sotheby’s into the Japanese market, the Russian market and the French market, each with its own peculiar difficulties.
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Michel Jules Strauss's Timeline
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September 23, 1936
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Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
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| 2021 |
October 18, 2021
Age 85
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