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Excerpt from Catalogue of Modern Paintings Belonging to M. Knoedler and Co., Successors to Goupil and Co: To Be Sold by Absolute Auction to Settle the Estate of the Late John Knoedler on the Evenings of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, April 11, 12, 13, and 14 Beginning Promptly at 8 O'clock Each Evening Dawant, A. No. 260. Defregger, I? No. 142. Delacroix, F. V. Eugene, No. 353 Demont. A., Nos. 1 9, 183. Demggt-breton, Vs E., No. 3 Deschamps, Louis, Nos. 34, 55. Diaz, N. V., Nos. 146, 270, 274, 352. Dieterle, Marie, Nos. 82, 307. Diez, Wilhelm, No. 328. Domingo, Jose, No. 345. Domingo-munoz, No. 117. Dupre, Julien, Nos. 35, 154. Dupr , Jules, Nos. 70, 272, 276. About the Publisher ...
This volume explores the crucial role of art dealers in creating a transatlantic art market in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “There was money in the air, ever so much money,” wrote Henry James in 1907, reflecting on the American appetite for art acquisitions. Indeed, collectors such as Henry Clay Frick and Andrew W. Mellon are credited with bringing noteworthy European art to the United States, with their collections forming the backbone of major American museums today. But what of the dealers, who possessed the expertise in art and recognized the potential of developing a new market model on both sides of the Atlantic? Money in the Air investigates the often-overloo...
Cleve Gray makes available for the first time many of the 10,000 documents left in the Smith estate of sculptor David Smith's own writings. They provide a unique record of this great artist's aesthetic development and his struggle for identity. 148 illustrations, 7 in color.
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