The Uneasy Heads

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THE PROUD POSSESSORS
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^ Aline Saarinen
Each year sees more of Europe's masterpieces of art—of painting, sculpture, furniture, jewellery— make the Atlantic crossing to a new home in one of the great American collections. For the fortunes of American business have given birth to art collections as staggering in quality and quantity as any of the famous royal or noble collections of the past. Ahne Saarinen, who is the art critic of the New York Times, has written a brilliant study of the remarkable men and women—it is surprising how many were women—who have created the great American collections.
Here they are revealed in all their fascinating variety of character—their tastes and talents, their foibles and eccentricities. There was Isobella Stewart Gardner who employed Bernard Berenson as her adviser, but put her servants, and herself, on short rations when she bought a picture; Gertrude Stein and her brothers who discovered Picasso and Matisse in Paris in the early 1900s... Tovább

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THE PROUD POSSESSORS
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^ Aline Saarinen
Each year sees more of Europe's masterpieces of art—of painting, sculpture, furniture, jewellery— make the Atlantic crossing to a new home in one of the great American collections. For the fortunes of American business have given birth to art collections as staggering in quality and quantity as any of the famous royal or noble collections of the past. Ahne Saarinen, who is the art critic of the New York Times, has written a brilliant study of the remarkable men and women—it is surprising how many were women—who have created the great American collections.
Here they are revealed in all their fascinating variety of character—their tastes and talents, their foibles and eccentricities. There was Isobella Stewart Gardner who employed Bernard Berenson as her adviser, but put her servants, and herself, on short rations when she bought a picture; Gertrude Stein and her brothers who discovered Picasso and Matisse in Paris in the early 1900s ; the legendary Peggy Guggenheim ; and, operating on the grandest scale of all, the great J. Pierpoint Morgan himself, who always overpaid but amassed in twenty years a collection worth $60,000,000.
This is a book to enthral all who have ever felt the lure of that fabulous world where so many fortunes have been made and spent, the international art market. Thirty-two plates of illustrations of the collectors and their collections and a jacket by Osbert Lancaster evoke most splendidly this fascinating epoch. Illustrated 255
Weidenfeld & Nicolson Vissza