The Vanished Collection - Stolen Masterpieces, Family Secrets One Woman's Quest for Truth

A charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a woman will go to find the truth about her family. 'As devourable as a thriller... Incredibly moving' Elle 'Pauline Baer de Perignon is a natural storyteller - refreshingly honest, curious and open' Menachem Kaiser 'A terrific book' Le Point It all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn't seen for years, were the names of the masters whose works once belonged to her great-grandfather, Jules Strauss: Renoir, Monet, Degas, Tiepolo and more. Pauline Baer de Perignon knew little to nothing about Strauss, or about his vanished, precious art collection. But the list drove her on a frenzied trail of research in the archives of the Louvre and the Dresden museums, through Gestapo records, and to consult with Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. What happened in 1942? And what became of the collection after Nazis seized her great-grandparents' elegant Parisian apartment? The quest takes Pauline Baer de Perignon from the Occupation of France to the present day as she breaks the silence around the wrenching experiences her family never fully transmitted, and asks what art itself is capable of conveying over time.

Product details

• Authors: Pauline Baer de Perignon, Pauline Baer de Perignon
• Assisted by: Natasha Lehrer (Translation), Lehrer Natasha (Translation)
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781803280905
• ISBN: 978-1-80328-090-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 225 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; France, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, Fiction, HISTORY / Europe / France, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, History of Art, Second World War, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Paris (City), Biography: historical, political and military, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050