The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York : : defining taste from antiquities to the avant-garde / / Yaëlle Biro, Christine E. Brennan, and Christel H. Force.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Collecting and Art Markets Series ; v.17
• VerfasserIn: Biro, Yaëlle,; E. Brennan, Christine,; H. Force, Christel,
• TeilnehmendeR: E. Brennan, Christine,; H. Force, Christel,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the History of Collecting and Art Markets Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (535 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

This volume delves into the six-decades transatlantic history of the Brummer galleries--among the most internationally prominent and commercially successful in the twentieth-century antique- and art markets--and furthers our understanding of emerging collecting fields as they crystallised.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Brummer Galleries: A Chronology -- Part 1 A Family Affair: The Brummers and Art Dealing in Paris -- Chapter 2 Innate Taste or Construction of the Gaze: Joseph Brummer and the Promotion of the African Object as Art -- Chapter 3 Picassos at 'Brummer Frères-Curiosités' and Beyond: From Frank Burty Haviland's Collection to John Quinn's -- Part 2 From Paris to New York: A Gallery in Transition -- Chapter 4 Joseph Brummer and the Flourishing of Byzantine Art History -- Chapter 5 Pioneers or Followers? The Brummer Brothers and Egyptian Art, 1910-1922 -- Chapter 6 Curiosités at Brummer's -- Part 3 New York: The Triumphant Years -- Chapter 7 The Brummer Gallery and Medieval Art in America, 1914-1947 -- Chapter 8 The Brummer Gallery and the Conservation of Medieval Sculptures in the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 9 Joseph Brummer, the Met, and Classical Antiquities in the United States -- Chapter 10 The Brummer Gallery and the Making of Iranian and Islamic Arts -- Part 4 Direct Witnesses -- Appendix A Interview with John Laszlo -- Appendix B Interview with Richard S. Brummer -- Appendix C Curatorial Reflections on the Brummer Gallery, Joseph, Ernest, and Ella Baché Brummer -- Index.