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professional life, but also the international art market dynamics in the decades to come. As Cristian Brinton already pointed out in 1909, it has always been a complex process to discern how art business dealings unfold given the international nature of the art market at the turn of the century and the
collector, Blair’s activities were very much aligned with this assessment of historic value, as she sought to acquire important examples of medieval and Renaissance sculpture. In a 1914 review of her collection, published in American Art News , Blair was described as having “devoted her life to the
[Alessandro] Brass. I spent over two months in Venice, in a lovely apartment on the Canal Grande, which he procured for me, and which I found to be the best possible substitute for life at sea … 40 … To return to Brass. I came to know him and his family even better than I knew his father, the late Italico
Barnes shortly after by another American artist living in Paris, Alfred Maurer, formed the cornerstone of his emerging collection of French modernist art. 12 In the late 1910s and early 1920s Barnes enjoyed a close and productive relationship with the prominent French art dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel. By
from the collection. Though even when Burton wrote to Murray about works from Galleria Torrigiani several years later, in April of 1883, nothing seems to have come of the matter. It is possible that Murray was not particularly motivated to work as a mediator to a mediator; in other words, if Bardini
Latour in his “Laboratory Life” (1979) analyzes scientific discoveries through the study of the relationships between the scientists and their families, in the same way this cycle of works has focused on a variety of educational systems through interviews among students themselves to experiment with
in his decision, 1 the event, in fact, merely recast it as having been motivated by ideological rather than pragmatic considerations. Even before the uprising, Raczyński was complaining about the inconveniences associated with living in the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Poznań, indicating
was born in this region, or living in a worldwide diaspora, might be interest to address their own sub region or mestizo roots through arts. Based on the interest in exploring the local, the urban, the deep territory, the collector could understand from his context, the rest of a Latin American
Legitimate power wielded by an individual can only be superseded by chaos or the most brutal tyranny wielded by the dregs of society. Diary , March 5, 1851 ∵ 1 The Flight from Warsaw in 1794: The Spectre of Revolution ‘It was a very special day in my life, and although I don
their mark on his future life. The recollections of them returned later during his bouts of depression. They also provided an explanation for some of his actions. In an entry in his diary dated 17 May 1836, written during a painful period when he was experiencing the collapse of his political career and