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The Art of Acquiring A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone

By Mary Gabriel

Book information

Publisher
Bancroft Press
Year
2002
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
8 MB (8503112 bytes)
Pages
248\0
Time added
2016-05-06 13:34:17

Description

Heiresses to a family fortune, Etta and Claribel Cone, Jewish sisters from Baltimore, amassed a major collection of modern French artworks. Their Victorian demeanour and dress belied two free-spirited eccentrics whose bold purchases of avant-garde, sometimes erotic art shocked early 20th-century society. They bought paintings by Matisse, Picasso, Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh, Manet, Redon, Pissarro, and others. After their death, their collection was bequeathed to the Baltimore Museum of Art.

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