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Download or read book Duveen written by Meryle Secrest and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has admired Gainsborough's Blue Boy of the Huntington Collection in California, or Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York owes much of his or her pleasure to art dealer Joseph Duveen (1869–1939). Regarded as the most influential—or, in some circles, notorious—dealer of the twentieth century, Duveen established himself selling the European masterpieces of Titian, Botticelli, Giotto, and Vermeer to newly and lavishly wealthy American businessmen—J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Mellon, to name just a few. It is no exaggeration to say that Duveen was the driving force behind every important private art collection in the United States. The first major biography of Duveen in more than fifty years and the first to make use of his enormous archive—only recently opened to the public—Meryle Secrest's Duveen traces the rapid ascent of the tirelessly enterprising dealer, from his humble beginnings running his father's business to knighthood and eventually apeerage. The eldest of eight sons of Jewish-Dutch immigrants, Duveen inherited an uncanny ability to spot a hidden treasure from his father, proprietor of a prosperous antiques business. After his father's death, Duveen moved the company into the riskier but lucrative market of paintings and quickly became one of the world's leading art dealers. The key to Duveen's success was his simple observation that while Europe had the art, America had the money; Duveen made his fortune by buying art from declining European aristocrats and selling them to the "squillionaires" in the United States. "By far the best account of Joseph Duveen's life in a biography that is rich in detail, scrupulously researched, and sympathetically written. [Secrest's] inquiries into early-twentieth-century collecting whet our appetite for a more general history of the art market in the first half of the twentieth century."—John Brewer, New York Review of Books
Book Synopsis The Rise Of The House Of Duveen by : James Henry Duveen
Download or read book The Rise Of The House Of Duveen written by James Henry Duveen and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an exciting portrayal of the history of the Duveen family in the art business up to 1939. “THOUGH MANY REASONS have contributed to impel me to write this hook, the chief one is the memory of my uncle Joel Joseph Duveen. On the death of my father at the untimely age of twenty-nine, when I was four years old, my uncle was appointed my guardian by the Dutch court. He took a constant interest in me as I grew up; and, seeing how much I admired his energy and brilliance, he loved to tell me his interesting experiences. I was an eager listener and made notes of all he told me. He frequently invited me to accompany him on long journeys, and I spent many holidays with him on the Continent; the most pleasurable and exciting parts of these travels with him were the stories of his early life and the reminiscences of his business career. “A friend [...] sent me in 1954 a fascinating book, Duveen, by S. N. Behrman, a gifted American author, which I read with the greatest interest. In it he has produced a brilliant picture of Lord Duveen’s character and methods, and he is to be congratulated on his successful portrait. But this exciting book is chiefly concerned with the period of Lord Duveen; and I am grateful to its author for inspiring me to take up my pen again and place on record the greatness of the older generation who, by more brilliant but less grandiose methods, created the firm Lord Duveen raised to a height that may never again be equalled. “I therefore began [...] to set down my memories of a line of great and intrepid connoisseurs in art. In our careers the art treasures in which we dealt and the great figures who formed our clientele are more interesting than we are ourselves. For this reason I have tried to picture the characters of my family by their adventurous dealings rather than by long biographical sketches; the incidents related are authentic in all details except names, some of which have been disguised for obvious reasons.”
Book Synopsis Memories of Duveen Brothers by : Edward Fowles
Download or read book Memories of Duveen Brothers written by Edward Fowles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1976 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mr. Duveen by : Mrs. Marjorie Balfour Newton
Download or read book Mr. Duveen written by Mrs. Marjorie Balfour Newton and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catatlogue of Early Italian Paintings Exhibited at the Duveen Galleries by : Duveen Brothers
Download or read book A Catatlogue of Early Italian Paintings Exhibited at the Duveen Galleries written by Duveen Brothers and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Duveen-Graham Presents, Attilio Salemme, 1911-1955 by : Duveen-Graham (Gallery)
Download or read book Duveen-Graham Presents, Attilio Salemme, 1911-1955 written by Duveen-Graham (Gallery) and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Duveen Collection of Rare Old Postage Stamps by : Charles James Phillips
Download or read book The Duveen Collection of Rare Old Postage Stamps written by Charles James Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Institute of International Education & Duveen-Graham Present: Fulbright Artists, 1949-1956 by : Institute of International Education (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book The Institute of International Education & Duveen-Graham Present: Fulbright Artists, 1949-1956 written by Institute of International Education (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Library Catalog by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Download or read book Library Catalog written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Download or read book Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reports by : United States. Board of Tax Appeals
Download or read book Reports written by United States. Board of Tax Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 by : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Collection & Recollections by : James Henry Duveen
Download or read book Collection & Recollections written by James Henry Duveen and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University by : Avery Library
Download or read book Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University written by Avery Library and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John Singer Sargent by : Richard Ormond
Download or read book John Singer Sargent written by Richard Ormond and published by Paul Mellon Centre. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1874 to 1882, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) produced more than 200 paintings and water-colours aside from portraiture that chart his development as an artist. The breadth of his achievement includes figures in landscape settings, architectural studies, seascapes, subject paintings, and studies after old masters. From his powerful studies of models in Paris in the mid-1870s to his compelling paintings set in Venice in the early 1880s, the works published in this volume of the catalogue raisonne show the variety of his aesthetic responses." "Working in the studio and en plein air, Sargent travelled widely during the eight years covered in this volume, painting in Paris, Brittany, Capri, Spain, North Africa and Venice." "This is the first time that Sargent's early work has been mapped so comprehensively. With very few exceptions, this book illustrates all the pictures under discussion in colour. Each painting, including several which have never been published before, is documented in depth with full provenance, exhibition history and bibliography. Original research of primary documents and on-site investigations uncovered much new information, presented in critical discussions of subject matter, dating, style, and significance in the artist's career. The volume reproduces a wealth of Sargent's preliminary and related drawings and of comparative works by other artists." --Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the National Gallery of Canada by : National Gallery of Canada. Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the National Gallery of Canada written by National Gallery of Canada. Library and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1973 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints by : Library of Congress
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
