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Product Identifiers
PublisherGiles The Limited, D.
ISBN-101911282344
ISBN-139781911282341
eBay Product ID (ePID)6038502145
Product Key Features
Book TitleDuveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880-1940
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
TopicArt, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Artists, Architects, Photographers, Decorative Arts
IllustratorYes
GenreDesign, Art, Antiques & Collectibles, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorCharlotte Vignon
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight38.8 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width7.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2018-057170
Reviews"This well-priced, handsomely presented and extensively documented monograph provides a timely and valuable addition to the literature on Duveen Brothers, their strategies and their market"--Diana J. Kostyrko, The Burlington Magazine "A Cautionary Tale of the World's Superrich Blowing Millions on Art"--James Tarmy, Bloomberg "Vignon's is a scholarly book to be sure, but it offers so much fascinating original source material and insight into the family's business practices"--Wendy Moonan, Introspective Magazine "Meet the Scheming Guardians of Taste for America's Nouveau Riche 100 years ago"--William Newton, The Federalist, "A Cautionary Tale of the World's Superrich Blowing Millions on Art"--James Tarmy, Bloomberg "Vignon's is a scholarly book to be sure, but it offers so much fascinating original source material and insight into the family's business practices"--Wendy Moonan, Introspective Magazine "Meet the Scheming Guardians of Taste for America's Nouveau Riche 100 years ago"--William Newton, The Federalist
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal709.2
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments by Charlotte Vignon Preface Commercial Strategies, Tricks, and Corruption1. Conquering London, New York and Paris2. Art dealers and interior decorators3. Issues of restoration, authenticity and expertise4. The illegal trade of Duveen BrothersTrade in objets d'art by Duveen Brothers5. Chinese porcelain dealers6. 18th-century French furniture and art dealers7. Furniture Merchants and Works of Art from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Conclusion Essay by Kugel Biographies Bibliography Photo Credits Index
SynopsisActive in London, Paris, and New York, Duveen Brothers was the most prominent art and antique dealer from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The firm's success came from buying furniture, tapestries, porcelain, and other objets d'art and selling it at high prices to wealthy Americans, including Henry Clay Frick, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Arabella Huntington, and John Pierpont Morgan. Making extensive use of Duveen Brothers records at the Getty Research Institute, as well as letters and invoices in the archives of the firm's clients, Vignon provides a rich study of this influential firm in the history of collecting., A fully illustrated study of the Duveen Brothers Company, the firm behind many of the United States' most famous museum collections.
LC Classification NumberN8660.D8V54 2019
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