Gustav Kahnweiler was the youngest brother of the famous Paris-based dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, who showed the works of Picasso and Braque in the early years of their development of cubism. Together with hsi wife Elly, Gustav had close personal relationships with a number of artists of the period. He acquired many works from his brother's gallery and built up an important collection of modern masters, including works by Braque, Gris, Klee, Laurencin, Laurens, Leger, Masson, Moore adn Picasso.
Celebrating the gift of these works to Tate, this publication explores the formation of the Kahnweiler collection and provides full-colour reproductions of fifty-six works by these manjor twentieth-century artists. Sir Alan Bowness writes of his friednship with the Kahnweilers, and Jennifer Mundy explores Gustav's origins in Germany, his early dealing, and his life in Britain from the mid-1930s.