Item #103336 All The Empty Palaces: The Merchant Patrons of Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Russia. Beverly Whitney Kean.
All The Empty Palaces: The Merchant Patrons of Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
All The Empty Palaces: The Merchant Patrons of Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
All The Empty Palaces: The Merchant Patrons of Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
All The Empty Palaces: The Merchant Patrons of Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
All The Empty Palaces: The Merchant Patrons of Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
All The Empty Palaces: The Merchant Patrons of Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Russia

All The Empty Palaces: The Merchant Patrons of Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Russia

New York: Universe Books, 1983. Hardbound. Black cloth with color illustrated dustjacket in Mylar cover. xviii, 342 pp. with occasional color and bw illustrations. VG-/VG- but with interesting ink doodles and underlining on the first 4 pages of Chapter 3. Art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks. Item #103336
ISBN: 0091479800

Brings to life the the merchant aristocracy and their patronage of the arts at the turn of the 19th-20th century; their society, the turbulent period in which they lived, and the collections of art themselves. With anecdotal material about Diaghilev, Repin, Benois, Bakst, Shalyapin, Stanislavsky, Gertrude and Leo Stein, Kahnweiler, and many others. The author charts the effect of the collections on Russian critics and public and on other Russian artists. -.

OCLC: 461909783

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