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

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