The Portrait of Dr. Gachet : Story Van Gogh's Last Portrait Modernism Money Polits Collectors Dealers Taste G
by Saltzman, Cynthia
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- 0140254870
- ISBN 13
- 9780140254877
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At a star-studded auction in 1990, a painting was sold for the record-breaking price of $82.5 million. That painting, Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet , has seemed to countless admirers to portray our times as "something bright in spite of its inevitable griefs." This fascinating book reconstructs the painting's journey and becomes a rich story of modernist art and the forces behind the art market. Masterfully evoked are the lives of the thirteen extraordinary people who owned the painting and shaped its history: avant-garde European collectors, pioneering dealers in Paris and Berlin, a brilliant medievalist who acquired it for one of Germany's great museums, and a member of the Nazi elite who sold it after it had been confiscated as a work of "degenerate art." Remarkable and riveting, The Portrait of Dr. Gachet illuminates, in dramatic detail, the dynamics of the art market and of culture in our time.
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- Bookseller
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GRP64803408
- Title
- The Portrait of Dr. Gachet : Story Van Gogh's Last Portrait Modernism Money Polits Collectors Dealers Taste G
- Author
- Saltzman, Cynthia
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140254870
- ISBN 13
- 9780140254877
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- April 1, 1999
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