2018, ISBN: 9780300234770

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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1969. 1st Edition/1st Printing, Volume III . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall… Mehr…

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1969. 1st Edition/1st Printing, Volume III . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 1124 pp. Vol. III only! Stated first printing of the first edition! Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require extra postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. No dust jacket. Water stain on fore edge. Some warped pages., W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1969, 2.5, London: Courtauld Institute Galleries, 1994. 1st Edition. Paperback. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: vii, 256 pages: illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Notes: ""Produced and distributed for the Courtauld Institute Galleries by Yale University Press, New Haven and London""--Title page verso. With texts by John Murdoch, Andrew Stephenson, William Bradford and Elizabeth Prettejohn. Contents: Impressionism and its Contexts / John House -- Modern French Art for the Nation: Samuel Courtauld's Collection and Patronage in Context / John House -- 'An Anatomy of Taste': Samuel Courtauld and Debates about Art Patronage and Modernism in Britain in the Inter-War Years / Andrew Stephenson -- The Courtauld Family and its Money / John Murdoch -- Catalogue / John House and William Bradford. Paintings. Sculpture. Drawings. Prints -- Checklist of Samuel Courtauld's Acquisitions of Modern French Paintings / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- Modern Foreign Paintings and the National Art Collections: Anthology of British Texts, 1905-32 / Elizabeth Prettejohn. Summary: In 1923 the industrialist Samuel Courtauld gave 50,000 to the British government to encourage the purchase of a collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. At the same time, he continued to build up his own fine collection of French late nineteenth-century paintings, most of which he later gave to the Courtauld Institute of Art. This beautiful book tells the story of Courtauld's collecting and patronage. Subjects: Courtauld, Samuel 1876-1947 Art collections; Exhibitions. Courtauld, Samuel 1876-1947. Courtauld Institute. Courtauld Institute Galleries Exhibitions. Impressionism (Art) France; Exhibitions. Painting, French; Exhibitions. Art Collectors and collecting England. Genre: Exhibition catalogues. Illustrated., London: Courtauld Institute Galleries, 1994, 0, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. xv, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia's art world. Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and to acquire works by Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso. A trailblazer in the Russian art world, Shchukin and his collection shocked, provoked, and inspired awe, ridicule, and derision among his contemporaries. This is the first English-language biography of Sergei Shchukin, written by art historian Natalya Semenova and adapted by Shchukin's grandson André Delocque. Featuring personal diary entries, correspondence, interviews, and archival research, it brings to light the life of a man who has hitherto remained in the shadows, and shows how despite his controversial reputation, he opened his collection to the public, inspiring a future generation of artists and changing the face of the Russian art world." - Publisher. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Collectible., Yale University Press, 2018, 5<