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Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880-1940

English · Hardback

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A fully illustrated study of the Duveen Brothers Company, the firm behind many of the United States' most famous museum collections.

List of contents










  • Acknowledgments by Charlotte Vignon
  • Preface


  • Commercial Strategies, Tricks, and Corruption

    1. Conquering London, New York and Paris

    2. Art dealers and interior decorators

    3. Issues of restoration, authenticity and expertise

    4. The illegal trade of Duveen Brothers

    Trade in objets d'art by Duveen Brothers

    5. Chinese porcelain dealers

    6. 18th-century French furniture and art dealers

    7. Furniture Merchants and Works of Art from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
  • Conclusion


  • Essay by Kugel
  • Biographies
  • Bibliography
  • Photo Credits
  • Index


  • About the author










    Charlotte Vignon is curator of Decorative Arts at The Frick Collection, as well as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Bard Graduate Center, New York. Vignon has organized a number of exhibitions at the Frick, including Pierre Gouthière: Virtuoso Gilder at the French Court (2016) which she co-authored. In 2018 she was awarded the Medal of Chevalier of The Order of Arts and Letters.

    Summary

    A fully illustrated study of the Duveen Brothers Company, the firm behind many of the United States' most famous museum collections.

    Product details

    Authors Charlotte Vignon, Vignon Charlotte
    Publisher Pan macmillan Ltd.
     
    Languages English
    Product format Hardback
    Released 31.12.2020
     
    EAN 9781911282341
    ISBN 978-1-911282-34-1
    Dimensions 184 mm x 235 mm x 31 mm
    Weight 1094 g
    Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques

    BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business, The arts: general issues, ART / Individual Artists / General, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Art, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Business Aspects, The arts: general topics

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