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Book Collection of Jakob Goldschmidt

Download or read book Collection of Jakob Goldschmidt written by Greenwich House. Music School Committee and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Important Collection of Fine Chinese Porcelain

Download or read book The Important Collection of Fine Chinese Porcelain written by Jakob Goldschmidt and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tableaux Anciens Du XVIe Au XIXe Siecle   de la Collection de Jakob Goldschmidt

Download or read book Tableaux Anciens Du XVIe Au XIXe Siecle de la Collection de Jakob Goldschmidt written by Galerie Charpentier and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Seven Paintings by Cezanne  Manet  Renoir and Van Gogh

Download or read book Catalogue of Seven Paintings by Cezanne Manet Renoir and Van Gogh written by Sotheby & Co. (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seven Paintings  Cezanne  Manet  Renoir and Van Gogh from the Estate of the Late Jakob Goldschmidt

Download or read book Seven Paintings Cezanne Manet Renoir and Van Gogh from the Estate of the Late Jakob Goldschmidt written by Goldschmidt (Jakob) Collection and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wrightsman Collection

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  • Author : Charles B. Wrightsman
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN : 0870990128
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book The Wrightsman Collection written by Charles B. Wrightsman and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1966 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume Five: This catalogue of a private collection includes works by such artists as Vermeer, Rubens, Renoir, La Tour, the Tiepolos, El Greco, Canaletto, and Van Dyck. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Book Rogues  Gallery

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  • Author : Philip Hook
  • Publisher : Profile Books
  • Release : 2017-01-26
  • ISBN : 1782832157
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Rogues Gallery written by Philip Hook and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Hook takes the lid off the world of art dealing to reveal the brilliance, cunning, greed and daring of its practitioners. In a richly anecdotal narrative he describes the rise and occasional fall of the extraordinary men and women who over the centuries have made it their business to sell art to kings, merchants, nobles, entrepreneurs and museums. From its beginnings in Antwerp, where paintings were sometimes sold by weight, to the rich hauteur of the contemporary gallery in London, Paris and New York, art dealing has been about identifying what is intangible but infinitely desirable, and then finding clients for whom it is irresistible. Those who have purveyed art for a living range from tailors, spies and the occasional anarchist to scholars, aristocrats, merchants and connoisseurs, each variously motivated by greed, belief in their own vision of art and its history, or simply the will to win. The cast of characters includes Paul Durand-Ruel, the Impressionists' champion; Herwath Walden, who first brought Modernism into the limelight; Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, high priest of Cubism; Leo Castelli, dealer-midwife to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art; and Peter Wilson, the charismatic Sotheby's chairman who made the auction room theatre. Philip Hook's history is one of human folly, greed and duplicity, interspersed with ingenuity, inspiration and acts of heroism. Rogues' Gallery is learned, witty and irresistibly readable.

Book Art and its Market

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  • Author : Dirk Boll
  • Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
  • Release : 2024-07-17
  • ISBN : 3775757945
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Art and its Market written by Dirk Boll and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new look on the history of art and its blind spots, the far-reaching digitization of structures and content, the changing role of museums and art criticism, new forces from influencers to NFTs: Hardly any market system has evolved as profoundly in the last decade as the distribution of art. With 25 years of experience in the art industry, Dirk Boll acts as a continuous chronicler and seasonal commentator of these pervasive developments. His handbook Art and its Market is a reliable source of in-depth knowledge about the inner workings of global art market systems. How do auctions, the network of galleries, and fairs work? How are prices being made, and how do trends both in the production of art as well as its collection emerge? What is more, this edition provides comprehensive information on the practical issues of art acquisition: What are the customs and pitfalls, the economic interdependencies between the artists, buyers and other market players, and the legal regulations governing the trade with art?

Book Principles of Figure Drawing

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  • Author : Alexander Dobkin
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2012-03-08
  • ISBN : 0486139816
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Principles of Figure Drawing written by Alexander Dobkin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a noted author and instructor, this guide for intermediate to advanced students presents the fundamentals of figure drawing in a lucid, practical manner. Each step in the construction and artistic representation of the human figure is fully explained and illustrated. Topics include such vital aspects as proportion, bone and muscle structure, limbs, head and neck, male and female figures, action and motion, and the draped figure. This volume ranks among the most complete and useful guides to figure drawing. Its wealth of illustrations ranges from diagrams to anatomical drawings to photographs, along with a rich gallery of work by the great masters. Examples include drawings from the works of Leonardo and Vesalius as well as Picasso, Modigliani, Rubens, Rembrandt, and dozens of other distinguished artists.

Book The Ultimate Trophy

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  • Author : Philip Hook
  • Publisher : Prestel Verlag
  • Release : 2012-12-17
  • ISBN : 3641089557
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book The Ultimate Trophy written by Philip Hook and published by Prestel Verlag. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1892 Degas' painting In the Café was sold for a mere 180 guineas at auction, with the public hissing as the hammer fell. Less than a century later another Impressionist work, Renoir's Moulin de la Galette, sold at Sotheby's for $78 million, accompanied by enthusiastic applause. In this history-cum-memoir Philip Hook, Senior Director of Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art department, examines the public's change of heart toward Impressionism. Starting with its shocking novelty and confounding style, he traces the impact of the Impressionist painting as it spread to Germany, America, and Great Britain, polarizing modernists and conservatives. Equally fascinating is the story of Impressionism's change in status. More than exceptionally pretty pictures, Impressionist works have become a currency in their own right, being bought and sold like blue-chip stock - coveted as much for their monetary worth as for their intrinsic beauty. Drawn from Hook's own experiences with art collectors and dealers, this fascinating chapter in art history is narrated through the lens of today's art market.

Book The  12 Million Stuffed Shark

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  • Author : Don Thompson
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2012-02-21
  • ISBN : 0230341934
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book The 12 Million Stuffed Shark written by Don Thompson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored. This book is the first to look at the economics and the marketing strategies that enable the modern art market to generate such astronomical prices. Drawing on interviews with past and present executives of auction houses and art dealerships, artists, and the buyers who move the market, Thompson launches the reader on a journey of discovery through the peculiar world of modern art. Surprising, passionate, gossipy, revelatory, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark reveals a great deal that even experienced auction purchasers do not know.

Book The William S  Paley Collection

Download or read book The William S Paley Collection written by William Rubin and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2012 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William S. Paley, founder of CBS, Inc., and a towering figure in the development of entertainment and communications industries, was also a committed collector and patron of modern art. This book catalogues the highly personal collection of paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, by such artists as [Paul] Cézanne, [Paul] Gauguin, [Henri] Matisse, [Pablo] Picasso, and others, that he bequeathed to the Museum of Modern Art. ..."--Back cover.

Book The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein  Volume 17  Documentary Edition

Download or read book The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Volume 17 Documentary Edition written by Albert Einstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Albert Einstein This volume finds Einstein recovered and traveling again after a prolonged illness, to Paris, London, and Zurich to receive three honorary doctorates; to the Sixth Solvay Congress in Brussels and to Leyden; and to attend the Constituent Meeting of the Jewish Agency Council in Zurich and the twelfth session of the ICIC in Geneva. By the end of the volume, Einstein embarks on a transatlantic voyage for the first time in five years to spend an academic term at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Einstein’s work focuses on the teleparallel approach to unified field theory, on which he engages in intensive correspondence with Élie Cartan and begins his collaboration with Walther Mayer. He also presents popular accounts of his work, surveying the historical progression from classical to twentieth-century physics leading up to the latest developments in unified field theory. He also engages in lively exchanges on both technical and foundational issues in quantum mechanics with W. Pauli, M. Born, M. Schlick, and others. His personal correspondence reflects eventful changes: the Einsteins realize their dream of owning a summer house outside Berlin, Einstein becomes a grandfather, his younger son Eduard commences his university studies and has his first serious mental health crisis, and his younger stepdaughter Margot gets married. Einstein’s ties to the Zionist movement are seriously tested in the wake of the violence that erupts in British Mandate Palestine in 1929, to which he reacts with forceful calls for a genuine symbiosis between Jews and Arabs, proposing the establishment of joint administrative, economic, and social organizations. He warns that without finding “the path to honest cooperation and honest negotiations with the Arabs,” “we [Jews] have learned nothing from our two-thousand-year ordeal and deserve the fate that will befall us.” In Germany, too, Einstein champions democracy in the face of rising support for the Nazi Party, is active on behalf of Jewish refugees, opposes the death penalty, and supports abortion rights and the decriminalization of homosexuality. Einstein promotes pacifism more vigorously. His efforts to promote peace follow three distinct transnational avenues: disarmament, conscientious objection, and apolitical pacifism, aimed “to find practical mechanisms to restrict the nation state.”

Book Nazi Era Provenance of Museum Collections

Download or read book Nazi Era Provenance of Museum Collections written by Jacques Schuhmacher and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we look at the artworks on display in museums, there is always a real possibility that some of these objects once belonged to victims of the Nazis – a possibility that has remained unacknowledged for far too long. Countless artworks were seized or forcibly sold, with many ending up in museum collections around the world, even in countries which actively fought to defeat Nazi Germany. Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections equips readers with the knowledge and strategies essential for confronting the shadow of the Nazi past in museum collections. Jacques Schuhmacher provides the vital historical orientation required to understand the Nazis’ complex campaign of systematic dispossession and extermination, and highlights the current environment in which museum-based Nazi-era provenance research takes place. This book introduces readers to the research methods and resources that can be used to reveal the moving stories behind the objects, highlighting the absorbing work of provenance researchers as it plays out in practice. Provenance research not only seeks to recover erased names and experiences and to reinsert them into a historical record, but also to ensure that the Nazis’ actions and worldview do not remain unchallenged in the galleries and storerooms of our museums today. Praise for Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections ‘Jacques Schuhmacher has written a hugely powerful, instructive and important book, tracing the historic responsibility of the museum world in addressing the legacy of Nazi-era loot. Fluently combining extensive historical scholarship with his expert understanding of investigative tools, this study uses compelling examples of restitution cases to show how provenance research should be done and, crucially, why it must be done.’ Dr Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A ‘A timely work drawing upon first-hand experience in Nazi-era provenance research, providing a unique insight into the difficulties thrown up by the period. This book is sure to become a point of reference for those working in the field.’ His Honour Judge Baumgartner, Deputy Chair, UK Spoliation Advisory Panel ‘It is crucially important that we continue researching the history of ownership of our museum collections. Only then can historic wrongs begin to be rectified. By providing both a broad overview and individual case studies, Schuhmacher offers invaluable guidance on the complexities of Nazi-era provenance research’. Gabriele Finaldi, Director of the National Gallery ‘A timely and user-friendly addition to the Provenance literature. Schuhmacher provides a how-to manual (complete with website addresses) and a much-needed clarification of immediate post-war restitution efforts. A must-have for all museum and art-world professionals.’ Lynn H. Nicholas, author of The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War ‘Allowing readers to understand the complex world of Nazi-era provenance research, this book is both a guide and a moving work of research in its own right. Jacques Schuhmacher is uniquely placed to write this book and to further the goal of material restitution.’ Professor Dan Stone, Director of the Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway University of London ‘This is the place to start for anyone wanting to know about provenance research into looted Nazi-era works of art, or wanting to do the research themselves.’ Lord Inglewood, Chairman of the UK Advisory Group on Spoliation Matters

Book Catalogue of the Important Collection of Fine Chinese Enamelled Porcelain of the 17th   18th Centuries  the Property of Jakob Goldschmidt  Esq

Download or read book Catalogue of the Important Collection of Fine Chinese Enamelled Porcelain of the 17th 18th Centuries the Property of Jakob Goldschmidt Esq written by Christie, Manson & Woods and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein  Volume 15  Translation Supplement

Download or read book The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Volume 15 Translation Supplement written by Albert Einstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of selected non-English texts included in Volume 15 is available in paperback. Since this supplementary paperback includes only select portions of Volume 15, it is not recommended for purchase without the main volume. Every document in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein appears in the language in which it was written, and this supplementary paperback volume presents the English translations of select portions of non-English materials in Volume 15. This translation does not include notes or annotation of the documentary volume and is not intended for use without the original language documentary edition which provides the extensive editorial commentary necessary for a full historical and scientific understanding of the documents.