The Julie Reinach-Goujon Collection

In a rare old photograph, Julie Reinach, standing in a black dress, is leaning over her husband Pierre Goujon, sitting at his desk. It is a moving image. Despite her self-control, the image reveals tenderness and expresses the couple’s love of art brought them together. Art historian and novelist Adrien Goetz wrote: "Pierre, whom everybody in the family loved, had married […] Julie […] Julie liked him because he inherited his family’s passion for painting." ( Villa Kérylos , Grasset, 2017). That is the heart of the matter. This passion invites us to look back at the Reinach family’s destiny. On December 20, 2017 at Drouot, the same house sold a rare watercolor by Paul Cézanne , Intérieur de Forêt ( Forest Interior ), made around 1904-1906, featuring small, flat areas of blue and green. The light diffused by the drawing propelled it to the top: €6,875,000. It was already from the collection of Julie Reinach-Goujon (1885-1971). Today, 16 more drawings appear, including Edgar Degas’ magnificent pastel of a dancer. This rare work, a study for a painting at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, is conservatively estimated at between €100,000 and 150,000.…