In 1870, a group of wealthy and culturally ambitious New Yorkers founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a Manhattan brownstone with a lackluster collection. Saltzman recounts the fierce competition to acquire some of the greatest paintings in the world in this story of beauty, aesthetics, and taste.
The last portrait Vincent van Gogh painted before his suicide in 1890 was that of Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, a doctor and amateur painter who had visited van Gogh in France. The painting was eventually auctioned off for a record $82.5 million in 1990. Saltzman, a former "Wall Street Journal" reporter, details the painting's history and provides ...
Remarkable and riveting, this fascinating and scholarly "biography" of a van Gogh masterpiece illuminates the dynamics of the art market and of culture in our time. 8-page photo insert.
A spellbinding account of the rapacious pursuit of the most exquisite paintings in the world In the Gilded Age, newly wealthy and culturally ambitious Americans began to compete for Europe's extraordinary Old Master pictures, causing a major migration of art across the Atlantic. "Old Masters, New World "is a backstage look at the cutthroat ...
The last portrait Vincent van Gogh painted before his suicide in 1890 was that of Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, a doctor and amateur painter who had visited van Gogh in France. The painting was eventually auctioned off for a record $82.5 million in 1990. Saltzman, a former "Wall Street Journal" reporter, details the painting's history and provides ...
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