Daniel Wildenstein

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Daniel Leopold Wildenstein (September 11, 1917 - October 23, 2001) was a major international art dealer, collector, and scholar, as well as a leading thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder.

Born in Paris, France, Wildenstein was the head of Wildenstein & Company, a family business that is one of the world's most successful art dealers with galleries in Paris, London, New York City and Tokyo. He was also a distinguished scholar of Impressionism, preparing catalogues raisonnés for Claude Monet, Edouard Manet and Paul Gauguin. A Wildenstein Index Number refers to these catalogues. It was said of him, "Daniel Wildenstein could not write a postcard."

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Daniel Wildenstein was a major figure in European horse racing who owned Peintre Celebre, All Along, Arcangues and numerous other champion horses that won some of the most important races in France, the United Kingdom and the United States. He acquired Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard, the prestigious breeding farm in Alençon that had belonged to Marcel Boussac.

Wildenstein died in 2001 at the age of 84 in a Paris hospital following surgery, leaving his vast collection of impressionist paintings estimated at around eight billion dollars to his sons Guy and Alec Wildenstein.