Author: Sotheby & Co. (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Icons
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Catalogue of Greek Icons
Author: Sotheby & Co. (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Icons
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Russian Works of Art
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Catalogues of Sale
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: The Athenæum
Author: ARTnews
Author: V.1-9, No.7; Mar. 1961-Sept. 1969, International Art Market
Author: The New York Times Index
Author: The Art Gallery
Author: Selling Russia's Treasures
Author: N. I︠U︡ SemenovaPublisher: Abbeville Press
ISBN: 9780789211545
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Selling Russia's Treasures documents one of the great cultural dramas of the twentieth century: the sale, by a cash-hungry Soviet government, of the artistic treasures accumulated by the Russian aristocracy over the centuries and nationalized after the October 1917 revolution. An astonishing variety of objects, from icons and illuminated manuscripts to Fabergé eggs and Old Master paintings, entered the collections of wealthy Westerners like Andrew Mellon and Armand Hammer in the 1920s and 30s. Written by the leading experts in the field and long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, the original Russian edition of Selling Russia's Treasures is sought after scholars and laymen alike. Now, for the first time, it is made available in English, in a revised and expanded edition that includes a new chapter on the secret files of the Hermitage, previously considered lost, as well as new research on the sale of religious art, and of twentieth-century French masterworks from the Museum of New Western Art. Numerous color plates reunite long-dispersed works in a virtual museum that illustrates the powerful blow inflicted on Russia's cultural heritage by these secretive sales, and rare photographs and archival documents help bring this buried history to light.