Bachelors of Art

Bachelors of Art

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An account of a wealthy American expatriate, Edward Perry Warren, who founded in Lewes, East Sussex, a bizarre brotherhood of aesthetes and who spearheaded one of the great art-collecting feats of all time, establishing the collections of the Boston Museum and the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

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Bachelors of Art by Hdavid Sox

This is the story of how Edward Perry Warren cornered the world art market from the early years of this century onwards. His competitor at the British Museum declared in despair there is nothing to be got nowadays, since Warren is always on the spot first. Warren almost single-handedly established the collections of the Boston Museum and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Apart from some of the finest Greek and Roman pieces in existence, Warren owned Rodin's The Kiss. As well as art, Warren collected young men, establishing in Lewes a brotherhood devoted to the revival of classical ideals. This world was to impinge on the worlds of Oscar Wilde, Augustus John, Matisse, Gertrude Stein, and the wealthy benefactress, Isabella Stewart Gardner, amongst others. More shocking than his recreation of a society based on Greek love is Warren's blatant dealings with some of the most contrived art forgeries of the century.
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ISBN 13 9781872180113
ISBN 10 1872180116
Title Bachelors of Art
Author Hdavid Sox
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 1991-09-05
Number of pages 384
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