Widely admired and celebrated in the worlds of philanthropy, art, horse breeding and racing, and also of environmental protection, Paul Mellon has kept a low profile to date. He eschews his love of privacy with this memoir, covering his life and glittering times from 1907 to the present.
Paul Mellon (1906-1999) was an unparalleled collector of British art. His collection, now at Yale in the museum and study centre he founded to house it, rivals those in Britain's national museums and is unquestionably the most comprehensive representation of British art held outside of the United Kingdom. This book and the exhibition that it ...
"The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being." So wrote Paul Mellon, one of the most accomplished and admired collectors of equestrian art. Indeed, among the earliest records of image-making, the ancient cave paintings at Lascaux, France, are visible ...
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