Edward g robinson art collection

While Edward G. Robinson is mostly known for playing gangsters and tough guys on the big screen, in real life he was a man of refined taste.

He loved art and was Hollywood's first major art collector, owning quite an impressive collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. Robinson didn't think of himself as a collector, though. He once stated: "I am not a collector.

Robinson was a hardened criminal, the quintessential Depression-era gangster who inspired a string of cinematic bad guys.

Robinson was a hardened criminal, the quintessential Depression-era gangster who inspired a string of cinematic bad guys.

Forty paintings from the Edward G. Robinson collection, March 4-April 12, Out of print, 12 pages.

Forty paintings from the Edward G. Robinson collection, March 4-April 12,.

40 paintings lent by actor Edward G. Robinson and his wife Gladys, a painter, included works by Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Auguste Renoir.

The Family of Edward G. Robinson ; Medium/Technique Pastel on colored paper ; Dimensions Overall: 48 x cm (18 7/8 x 25 in.) ; Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs.

I am just an innocent bystander who has been taken over by a collection. [...] I am just a lover of paintings. I do what I do for the sheer joy of it."*

In 1956, Robinson was forced to sell his art collection in order to pay for his divorce from his first wife Gladys Lloyd. He sold the collection for more than $3 million to Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos.

After marrying Jane Adler in 1958, Robinson started to collect art once again. This second collection, which was even bigger than the first, was sold for more than $5 million to an American industrialist a few months after