Art Held Hostage: The Battle over the Barnes Collection. John Anderson

Art Held Hostage: The Battle over the Barnes Collection



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Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Page: 237
ISBN: 9780393048896


This is the story of how a fabled art foundation—the greatest collection of impressionist and postimpressionist art in America—came to be, and why it is now, thanks to more than a decade of legal squabbling, on the brink of financial collapse. The Barnes Collection has been conservatively valued at more than $6 billion and includes some 69 Cézannes (more than in all the museums of Paris combined), 60 Matisses, 44 Picassos, 18 Rousseaus, 14 Modiglianis, and no fewer than 180 Renoirs. Yet the Barnes is in crisis. Its founder, Dr. Albert C. Barnes (1872), grew up in the slums of late-nineteenth-century Philadelphia only to become first a physician and later a pharmaceutical king. By ...

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