- French expert attached to the Hôtel Drouot and later director of the Galerie Georges Petit; he subsequently maintained his own gallery. and later president of the Art Editor Syndicates. He issued numerous expertises on nineteenth-century French painting, including many Corot attributions. Expert in French painting of the 19th ct. main consultant for the Hotel Drouot auction house in Paris. Collaborated with the Nazis ERR on the confiscated Jewish treasures, many sales to Wüster, Brüschwiler and Bruno Lohse, may have been involved in the seizure of the Schloss Collection as an informer.
His son inherited the gallery and the thing went on a few more years until the 70´s.
Many Modigliani works that passed through the French market between the 1930s and the 1950s carry an expertise in his name or that of his son. many Modigliani paintings have a certificate by him. A published note on his working method:LINK
Auction notes still cite the name when a Ceroni number is also present.
A painting documented only by Schoeller (father or son) is not treated as sufficient by the major auction houses. The compilation is incomplete as a catalogue raisonné. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some works authenticated by him: (Only signed expertises seen in the market are recorded here; the office files have not been located.)
and many more others...
Legal note on MR: This investigation has not had access to MR’s catalogue raisonné; all research here is based on open sources, publications and exhibitions. By no means has that catalogue been copied at any point.
