Portrait of Dr Gachet:The Story of A Van Gogh Masteroiece - Signed
by Cynthia Saltzman
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670862231
- ISBN 13
- 9780670862238
- Seller
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Boxborough, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
At a star-studded auction in 1990, a painting was sold for the record-breaking price of $82.5 million. That painting, Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet , has seemed to countless admirers to portray our times as "something bright in spite of its inevitable griefs." This fascinating book reconstructs the painting's journey and becomes a rich story of modernist art and the forces behind the art market. Masterfully evoked are the lives of the thirteen extraordinary people who owned the painting and shaped its history: avant-garde European collectors, pioneering dealers in Paris and Berlin, a brilliant medievalist who acquired it for one of Germany's great museums, and a member of the Nazi elite who sold it after it had been confiscated as a work of "degenerate art." Remarkable and riveting, The Portrait of Dr. Gachet illuminates, in dramatic detail, the dynamics of the art market and of culture in our time.
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- Bookseller
- TLM Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2020215
- Title
- Portrait of Dr Gachet:The Story of A Van Gogh Masteroiece - Signed
- Author
- Cynthia Saltzman
- Format/Binding
- Blue and cream boards with gold lettering
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First/First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670862231
- ISBN 13
- 9780670862238
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Autographed, Painting, Vincent Van Gogh
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art and Artists;
- Size
- 9'1/4 X 6 1/4
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