Anne Sinclair is Paul Rosenberg's granddaughter and one of France's best-known journalists. For thirteen years she was the host of 7 sur 7, a weekly news and politics television show for which she interviewed world figures of the day, including Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Madonna. The editorial director of Le Huffington Post (France), Sinclair has written two bestselling books on politics.
"Sinclair's captivating tale of two cities will change the way we look at modern art." --Alice Kaplan, author of Dreaming in French "My Grandfather's Gallery tells Paul Rosenberg's story in bits and pieces that construct a life and a legend through association.... A detailed and important record of twentieth century art." --The Boston Globe "This book's fascination comes from the feeling that the reader is discreetly looking on, brought up close to the author's own emotional experience as she roams back and forth across time ... into a past that emerges as truly another country." --The Guardian (London) "In shifting back and forth from the Vichy years to the early 1920s to the aftermath of the war, Ms. Sinclair offers revealing glimpses into what made the gallery such a prime target for the Nazis." --The Wall Street Journal "Sinclair, a renowned journalist in France, pulls no punches.... [An] absorbing account." --W "My Grandfather's Gallery paints a vivid portrait of a moment of exceptional brilliance in French artistic life...the speed and greed with which it was so brutally destroyed, and the efficiency with which these deeds of destruction were covered up and forgotten." --The Spectator (UK) "More memoir than biography, this book's fascination comes from the feeling that the reader is discreetly looking on, brought up close to the author's own emotional experience as she roams back and forth across time...like a set of wistful glimpses, meticulously analysed, into a past that emerges as truly another country." --Sue Roe, The Guardian (UK) "[A] splendid memoir...Sinclair calls attention to the difficulties of searching out the past and of grappling with what is found there." --Publishers Weekly "Readers interested in WWII and art under fascism will find this a fascinating read. Sinclair's memoir contextualizes yet another aspect of this tumultuous time." --Booklist "An intriguing window into the art scene of the early to mid-1900s." --Kirkus Reviews
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