The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York : : defining taste from antiquities to the avant-garde / / Yaëlle Biro, Christine E. Brennan, and Christel H. Force.
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.
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Superior document: | Studies in the History of Collecting and Art Markets Series ; v.17 |
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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
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (535 pages) |
Notes: | Includes index. |
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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.