Download or read book Diary of an Art Dealer written by René Gimpel and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Diary of an Art Dealer written by René Gimpel and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1987 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Journal of a Transatlantic Art Dealer written by Diana J. Kostyrko and published by Harvey Miller. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a catalog of selected artworks from Gimpel's collections.

Download or read book The Diaries 1871 1882 of Samuel P Avery Art Dealer written by Samuel Putnam Avery and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Secrets of an Art Dealer written by James Henry Duveen and published by . This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ART DEALtR JAMES HENRY DUVEEN New York E. P. DUTTON CO., INC. To THAT BEING WHICH OCCURS ONLY ONCE IN LIFE A MOTHER CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. REMAKING A RELIQUARY FOR 30,000, 9 II. THE PRINCE WHO LOST HIS TAPESTRIES . 28 III. THE TRAGEDY OF THE JABAGH VASES . 45 IV. THE FATAL PLATE OF BERNARD PALISSY . 64 V. THE TITLED KLEPTOMANIAC . . 77 VI. THE MADDEST COLLECTOR I HAVE EVER KNOWN ...... 88 VII. THE BLACKMAILING OF AN EXPERT, . 102 VIII. How PIERPONT MORGAN BOUGHT MIS TAKES, . . . .118 IX. How A V. C. EARNED A ROYAL SNUFFBOX 134 X. A LOVE-INTRIGUE THAT RUINED AN ART DEALER . . . . . .146 XL How A TWENTY MILLION WIDOW LOST ME 2 7,000 . . . .160 XII. THE SECRET OF NAPOLEON IIs CASKET . 172 XIII. THE DRESDEN PORCELAIN CASE . 184 XIV. THE ART DEALER WHO ESCAPED PENAL SERVITUDE . ., . .196 XV. WHEN CONNOISSEURS Go WRONG . . 208 XVI. How I LOST FIVE 2o, loo VASES . . 224 XVII. THE TRAGEDY OF VAN OLDENBARNE VELDT 238 XVIII. DOUBLE CROSSED BY A FRIEND . .251 XIX. THE CURSE OF THE MALEVOLENT GODS 260 XX. SAVED BY THE CAMORRA . . . 272 ILLUSTRATIONS FACE PAGE GOTHIC TAPESTRY THE CREDO TOURNAI ... 36 THE HEESWIJK CASTLE SET OF AZURE CHINESE VASES WITH THREE COVERS . . . . . . 37 A BERNARD PALISSY DISH ...... 68 A SNUFF Box 69 DRESDEN PORCELAIN SLEIGH GROUP .... 92 FRAXJ HERMINA FEIST ...... 93 GOTHIC SUIT OF ARMOUR . . . . . 108 THE FAMOUS GUZMAN CROSS . . . . .109 THE SNUFF Box OF FREDERICK THE GREAT . . 138 CHEVALIER JACOB VAN Esso THE RIDDER, . 139 THE Louis XVI WRITING CABINET . . . .166 NAPOLEON II KING OF ROME . . . . .167 EXECUTION OF MAXIMILIAN OF AUSTRIA, . .180 THE FREEMASON GROUP OF DRESDEN PORCELAIN . 181 THE COUNTESS COSEL, DRESDEN CRINOLINE FIGURE . 198 FIVE CHINESE PORCELAIN FAMILLEROSE VASES . 199 A Louis XV FAN ....... 212 STUART HIGH-BACK CHAIR . . . . .213 FAMILLE NOIRE VASE 230 JONKHEER VAN OLDENBARNEVELDTs HOUSE IN THE NoORD ElNDE AT THE HAGUE . . . . .231 OLD DELFT POTTERY BY ALBERT DE KEYSER . . 246 CLARET WORCESTER PLATE 247 THE MALEVOLENT GODS ..... 262 WORCESTER DISH 263 vn SECRETS OF AN ART DEALER SECRETS OF AN ART DEALER CHAPTER I REMAKING A RELIQUARY FOR 30,000 THE Combes law which, at a stroke, converted all the ecclesiastical treasures of France into State property, was one of those upheavals which, like the War, brought objects into the art markets of the world which had long been thought quite safe from any chance of dispersal. Thirty odd years ago no one dreamed that such wonderful goldsmiths work, pictures and other treasures, would ever be freed from the dead hand, and the result was startling. The Loi Combes taught me that even the Church would steal its own property rather than allow it to fall into the hands of the State despoilers. Priests, devout citizens, not quite so devout or so respectable ladies afid a host of hangers-on intrigued and conspired one against the other, linked only by the common trait of feverish greed. As I was motoring with an artist friend on the Continent I happened to be amongst the first to be caught up into this maelstrom I say motoring, for although we were aiming for the Riviera we had only got one third of the way in ten days We could have walked it faster, but those were the days when io SECRETS OF AN ART DEALER tyres were only guaranteed for about 500 miles and the motorist spent more time under his car than in it. Near Auxerre Sydney Watson, my companion, sat down on a roadside bank and hitched up hiselegant trousers. He paid no attention at all to a small crowd of loafers and children who goggled alternately at him and me. My dear Duveen, he exclaimed, the more I see of motor cars the more I congratulate myself I know nothing about them Especially in this tropical heat. Kneeling in the dust with the sweat trickling down my face, and wrestling with a burst tyre, I only just avoided losing my temper, 1 must have looked a Harry Tate figure, clad in I regret to say a suit of dark purple leather...

Download or read book Memoir of an Art Gallery written by Julien Levy and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by Ingrid Schaffner.

Download or read book Diaries of a Young Artist written by Shelly Bancroft and published by Darte Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2009 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Shelly Bancroft, Peter Nesbett, Rebecca Sears.

Download or read book In the Full Light of the Sun written by Clare Clark and published by Harper. This book was released on 2019 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlin in the 1920s is a city of seedy night clubs and sumptuous art galleries, where nothing is quite what it seems. It is home to Emmeline, a young art student; Julius, an art expert who loves paintings more than people; and Frank, a Jewish lawyer looking for a way to protect both his family and his principles as the Nazis begin their rise to power. Rachmann, a mercurial art dealer-- and newly discovered paintings by Vincent van Gogh-- will provide a scandal that turns all their lives upside down. -- adapted from jacket

Download or read book The Auctioneer written by Simon de Pury and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Simon de Pury, former Chairman of Sotheby's Europe, former owner of Sotheby's rival Phillips de Pury, and currently a London-based dealer, takes us inside a secretive business, whose staggering prices, famous collectors, and high crimes are front page news almost every day"--

Download or read book Plunder written by Cynthia Saltzman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Christian Science Monitor's Ten Best Books of May "A highly original work of history . . . [Saltzman] has written a distinctive study that transcends both art and history and forces us to explore the connections between the two.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street Journal A captivatingstudy of Napoleon’s plundering of Europe’s art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from Venice Cynthia Saltzman’s Plunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563 during the Renaissance, the picture was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Veronese had filled the scene with some 130 figures, lavishing color on the canvas to build the illusion that the viewers’ space opened onto a biblical banquet taking place on a terrace in sixteenth-century Venice. Once pulled from the wall, the Venetian canvas crossed the Mediterranean rolled on a cylinder; soon after, artworks commandeered from Venice and Rome were triumphantly brought into Paris. In 1801, the Veronese went on exhibition at the Louvre, the new public art museum founded during the Revolution in the former palace of the French kings. As Saltzman tells the larger story of Napoleon’s looting of Italian art and its role in the creation of the Louvre, she reveals the contradictions of his character: his thirst for greatness—to carry forward the finest aspects of civilization—and his ruthlessness in getting whatever he sought. After Napoleon’s 1815 defeat at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington and the Allies forced the French to return many of the Louvre’s plundered paintings and sculptures. Nevertheless, The Wedding Feast at Cana remains in Paris to this day, hanging directly across from the Mona Lisa. Expertly researched and deftly told, Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history, one that sheds light on a seminal historical figure and the complex origins of one of the great museums of the world.

Download or read book Vincent Van Gogh Arles Saint R my Auvers sur Oise 1888 1890 written by Sjraar van Heugten and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mistress of Modernism written by Mary V. Dearborn and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dearborn's unprecedented access to Guggenheim's family, friends, and papers contributes rich insight to her traumatic childhood in New York, her self-education in the ways of art and artists, her battles with other art-collecting Guggenheims, and her legendary sexual appetites.

Download or read book Stewards of the Nation s Art written by Andrea Geddes Poole and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stewards of the Nation's Art examines the internal tensions between Britain's four main public art galleries' administrative directors, the aristocrats dominating the boards of trustees, and those in the Treasury who controlled the funds as well as board appointments.

Download or read book Rogues Gallery written by Philip Hook and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “expert and elegantly written” book reveals how dealers have been a major force in art history from the Renaissance to the avant garde (The Guardian, UK). Philip Hook’s riveting narrative takes us from the early days of art dealing in Antwerp, where paintings were sold by weight, to the unassailable hauteur of contemporary galleries in New York, London, Paris, and beyond. Along the way, we meet a surprisingly wide-ranging cast of characters—from tailors, spies, and the occasional anarchist to scholars, aristocrats, and connoisseurs, some compelled by greed, some by their own vision of art—and some by the art of the deal. Among them are Joseph Duveen, who almost single-handedly brought the Old Masters to America; Paul Durand-Ruel, the Impressionists’ champion; 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 a theater of the auction room. Full of unforgettable anecdotes and astute insight, Rogue’s Gallery offers “a front-row seat and a backstage pass to this arcane and obsessively secretive profession” (Hannah Rothschild, Mail on Sunday, UK).

Download or read book Mythical Diary written by and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mythical Diary is a visual journey through the classical sculpture of the Archaeological Museum of Naples. It is a physical engagement with the marble bodies of myth. Through his black and white photography, Luigi Spina disassembles the limbs of the sculptures, emphasizing their curves and hidden eroticism, humanizing them to establish a dialogue with the observer. Sculpture is a sign of eternal, unchanging beauty: the only true testimony of many lives that have passed and come to an end, leaving a profound mark in the story of many other existences. For Spina, with his own vision of sculpture, a statue of Aphrodite is not merely a stereotypical portrayal of myth. In it are gathered the anxieties, dreams, hopes and joys of all those who have seen her and dreamed of or studied her. In a way, classical sculpture is profoundly present in our veins, in our very breath. The project takes the form of an imaginary diary covering fifteen days. But this is only an ephemeral period of time, a convention. The whole work developed over a period of days and months amounting to years, always in contact with the circumscribed space made of myriad lives and stories, which we call a museum. In Mythical Diary, Spina attempts to make classical sculpture interact with the viewer's desire to be a part of this ancient world which has continually influenced our way of life, our culture and our society, proving itself to be contemporary with any period.

Download or read book The Cartiers written by Francesca Cartier Brickell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A dynamic group biography studded with design history and high-society dash . . . [This] elegantly wrought narrative bears the Cartier hallmark.”—The Economist The “astounding” (André Leon Talley) story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their grandfather’s humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon—as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives “Ms. Cartier Brickell has done her grandfather proud.”—The Wall Street Journal The Cartiers is the revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty—four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s. At its heart are the three Cartier brothers whose motto was “Never copy, only create” and who made their family firm internationally famous in the early days of the twentieth century, thanks to their unique and complementary talents: Louis, the visionary designer who created the first men’s wristwatch to help an aviator friend tell the time without taking his hands off the controls of his flying machine; Pierre, the master dealmaker who bought the New York headquarters on Fifth Avenue for a double-stranded natural pearl necklace; and Jacques, the globe-trotting gemstone expert whose travels to India gave Cartier access to the world’s best rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, inspiring the celebrated Tutti Frutti jewelry. Francesca Cartier Brickell, whose great-grandfather was the youngest of the brothers, has traveled the world researching her family’s history, tracking down those connected with her ancestors and discovering long-lost pieces of the puzzle along the way. Now she reveals never-before-told dramas, romances, intrigues, betrayals, and more. The Cartiers also offers a behind-the-scenes look at the firm’s most iconic jewelry—the notoriously cursed Hope Diamond, the Romanov emeralds, the classic panther pieces—and the long line of stars from the worlds of fashion, film, and royalty who wore them, from Indian maharajas and Russian grand duchesses to Wallis Simpson, Coco Chanel, and Elizabeth Taylor. Published in the two-hundredth anniversary year of the birth of the dynasty’s founder, Louis-François Cartier, this book is a magnificent, definitive, epic social history shown through the deeply personal lens of one legendary family.

Download or read book A History of the Western Art Market written by Titia Hulst and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first sourcebook to trace the emergence and evolution of art markets in the Western economy, framing them within the larger narrative of the ascendancy of capitalist markets. Selected writings from across academic disciplines present compelling evidence of art's inherent commercial dimension and show how artists, dealers, and collectors have interacted over time, from the city-states of Quattrocento Italy to the high-stakes markets of postmillennial New York and Beijing. This approach casts a startling new light on the traditional concerns of art history and aesthetics, revealing much that is provocative, profound, and occasionally even comic. This volume's unique historical perspective makes it appropriate for use in college courses and postgraduate and professional programs, as well as for professionals working in art-related environments such as museums, galleries, and auction houses. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 2017. This is the first sourcebook to trace the emergence and evolution of art markets in the Western economy, framing them within the larger narrative of the ascendancy of capitalist markets. Selected writings from across academic disciplines present compellin