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Portrait of Dr. Gachet: The Story of a Van Gogh Masterpiece
by Saltzman, Cynthia
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good DJ
- ISBN 10
- 0670862231
- ISBN 13
- 9780670862238
- Seller
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Helena, Montana, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
At a star-studded auction in 1990, a painting was sold for the record-breaking price of $82.5 million. That painting, Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet , has seemed to countless admirers to portray our times as "something bright in spite of its inevitable griefs." This fascinating book reconstructs the painting's journey and becomes a rich story of modernist art and the forces behind the art market. Masterfully evoked are the lives of the thirteen extraordinary people who owned the painting and shaped its history: avant-garde European collectors, pioneering dealers in Paris and Berlin, a brilliant medievalist who acquired it for one of Germany's great museums, and a member of the Nazi elite who sold it after it had been confiscated as a work of "degenerate art." Remarkable and riveting, The Portrait of Dr. Gachet illuminates, in dramatic detail, the dynamics of the art market and of culture in our time.
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- Bookseller
- Barker Books & Vintage
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20047
- Title
- Portrait of Dr. Gachet: The Story of a Van Gogh Masterpiece
- Author
- Saltzman, Cynthia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670862231
- ISBN 13
- 9780670862238
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
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