The collector : the story of Sergei Shchukin and his lost masterpieces /
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| Author / Creator: | Semonova, Natalya, author. |
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| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] |
| Description: | xv, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11701600 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- A Note on the Text
- Preface
- Prologue
- Part 1. The Collector Brothers
- I. The Gentleman Who Slept in His Box at the Bolshoy
- II. Luther's Bible
- III. The Tragic Tales of the Older Brothers: Nikolai and Petr
- IV. Dmitry Shchukin: 'The Dutchman'
- V. Ivan Shchukin: Portrait of the Younger Brother as a Parisian Dandy
- Part 2. Sergei Shchukin
- VI. An Oligarch in Moscow
- VII. Strangers on a Train
- VIII. The Storm
- IX. The Debacle
- X. In the Footsteps of Moses
- XI. The Price of a King's Wife
- XII. Harmonie en Rouge
- XIII. The Two Orphans
- XIV. Quo Vadis?
- XV. La Danse and La Musique
- XVI. The City of All-Night Revels
- XVII. Picasso the Hypnotist
- XVIII. Portrait of a Chinese Patriarch
- XIX. The Acropolis of the Arts
- XX. The Exiles
- XXI. The World's First Museum of Modern Art
- XXII. Time Regained
- Postscript: The Collector of the Future
- Endnotes
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
