Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880-1940

Active in London, Paris, and New York, Duveen Brothers was the most prominent art and antique dealer from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The firm's success came from buying furniture, tapestries, porcelain, and other objets d'art and selling it at high prices to wealthy Americans, including Henry Clay Frick, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Arabella Huntington, and John Pierpont Morgan. Making extensive use of Duveen Brothers records at the Getty Research Institute, as well as letters and invoices in the archives of the firm's clients, Vignon provides a rich study of this influential firm in the history of collecting.

Author: Charlotte Vignon
Publisher: Giles
Published: 06/25/2019
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 9.50h x 7.60w x 1.40d
ISBN13: 9781911282341
ISBN10: 1911282344
BISAC Categories:
- Antiques & Collectibles | Art
- Art | History | Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
- Art | Business Aspects

About the Author
Charlotte Vignon is curator of Decorative Arts at The Frick Collection, as well as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Bard Graduate Center, New York. Vignon has organized a number of exhibitions at the Frick, including Pierre Gouthière: Virtuoso Gilder at the French Court (2016) which she co-authored. In 2018 she was awarded the Medal of Chevalier of The Order of Arts and Letters.