Foreign currency volatility and the market for French modernist art / by David M. Challis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Challis, David M., author.

Series:

Studies in the history of collecting & art markets ; Volume 12.

Studies in the history of collecting & art markets ; Volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--France--Marketing--History--20th century.

Art.

France--Economic conditions--1918-1945.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

Foreign Currency Volatility and the Market for French Modernist Art examines how the collapse of the French franc in the decades following the First World War activated powerful 'push' and 'pull' economic forces that compelled French art collectors to monetise their collections while simultaneously elevating the purchasing power of international art collectors. These factors are shown to have played a significant, and previously under-recognised role, in the large-scale translocation of French modernist art that radically accelerated its commercial and critical reception across the globe and positioned it at the apex of the newly established hierarchy of modern art.

Contents:

Economic Disruption and the Monetisation of French Collections

Samuel Courtauld as Private Collector and Public Donor

Albert Barnes as Currency Opportunist and 'Visionary Art Educator'

Kojiro Matsukata and the Economics of Rodin in Japan

Institutional Inertia and the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia

Assis Chateaubriand at the Museu de São Paulo and the Turn Toward Brazilian Modernism.

Notes:

Based on the author's dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, 2018, under the title: Moving mountains : interwar collecting of French modernist art and the economics of translocation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004468719 DOI