Old masters, new world : America's raid on Europe's great pictures, 1880-World War I / Cynthia Saltzman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saltzman, Cynthia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, European.

Painting--Collectors and collecting--United States--History--19th century.

Painting.

Painting--Collectors and collecting--United States--History--20th century.

Painting--Europe--Marketing--History--19th century.

Painting--Europe--Marketing--History--20th century.

Marketing.

History.

Painting--Collectors and collecting.

Europe.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Viking, 2008.

Contents:

Part 1 The Collectors

I "American Citizen ... Patron of Art": Henry Gurdon Marquand and van Dyck's Portrait of James Stuart 11

II "C'est Mon Plaisir": Isabella Stewart Gardner, Bernard Berenson, Otto Gutekunst, and Titian's Europa 45

III "Mr. Morgan Still Seems to Be Going on His Devouring Way": J. Pierpont Morgan, Raphael's Colonna Madonna, Gainsborough's Georgiana, Reynolds's Lady Elizabeth Delme, and Lawrence's Elizabeth Farren 93

IV "Greco's Merit Is That He Was Two Centuries Ahead of His Time": Mary Cassatt, Harry and Louisine Havemeyer, Spain, and El Greco 109

V "A Picture for a Big Price": Henry Clay Frick, Charles Carstairs, Otto Gutekunst, and the Ilchester Rembrandt 145

Part 2 The Painting Boom

VI "Octopus and Wrecker Duveen": Joseph Duveen Enters the Old Master Market 199

VII "Highest Prizes of the Game of Civilization": Holbein's Christina of Denmark, Rembrandt's Polish Rider, Velazquez's Philip IV, Three Vermeers, and Record Prices 213

VIII "Thanks Not in [the] Market at Present": Bellini's St. Francis and Falling Prices 231

Part 3 The Great War and the Picture Market

IX "If This War Goes On, Many Things Will Be for Sale": Old Master Spoils 241

X The Feast of the Gods: Bellini and Titian's Masterpiece Comes on the Market 253.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-324) and index.

ISBN:

9780670018314

0670018317

OCLC:

180754924

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