Impressionism for England. Samuel Courtland As Patron And Collector. - Softcover

Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as patron and collector / John House with contributions by John Murdoch [and others]

1st Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: vii, 256 pages: illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Notes: "Produced and distributed for the Courtauld Institute Galleries by Yale University Press, New Haven and London"--Title page verso. With texts by John Murdoch, Andrew Stephenson, William Bradford and Elizabeth Prettejohn. Contents: Impressionism and its Contexts / John House -- Modern French Art for the Nation: Samuel Courtauld's Collection and Patronage in Context / John House -- 'An Anatomy of Taste': Samuel Courtauld and Debates about Art Patronage and Modernism in Britain in the Inter-War Years / Andrew Stephenson -- The Courtauld Family and its Money / John Murdoch -- Catalogue / John House and William Bradford. Paintings. Sculpture. Drawings. Prints -- Checklist of Samuel Courtauld's Acquisitions of Modern French Paintings / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- Modern Foreign Paintings and the National Art Collections: Anthology of British Texts, 1905-32 / Elizabeth Prettejohn. Summary: In 1923 the industrialist Samuel Courtauld gave £50,000 to the British government to encourage the purchase of a collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. At the same time, he continued to build up his own fine collection of French late nineteenth-century paintings, most of which he later gave to the Courtauld Institute of Art. This beautiful book tells the story of Courtauld's collecting and patronage. Subjects: Courtauld, Samuel 1876-1947 Art collections; Exhibitions. Courtauld, Samuel 1876-1947. Courtauld Institute. Courtauld Institute Galleries Exhibitions. Impressionism (Art) France; Exhibitions. Painting, French; Exhibitions. Art Collectors and collecting England. Genre: Exhibition catalogues. Illustrated. 1 Kg. Artikel-Nr. 340103

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