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This volume will appeal to anyone interested in the business and history of art, and includes a catalogue of 500 masterpieces sold by Duveen. Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, provides an introduction.
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 ...
Kunsthandleren Joseph Duveen havde gallerier i Paris, New York og London i begyndelsen af 1900-tallet
A fully illustrated study of the Duveen Brothers Company, the firm behind many of the United States' most famous museum collections.
This volume discusses the interface between human development and socio-cultural processes by exploring the writings of Gerard Duveen, an internationally renowned figure, whose untimely death left a void in the fields of socio-developmental psychology, cultural psychology, and research into social representations. Duveen's original and comprehensiv
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