The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York, defining taste from antiquities to the avant-garde

Brill

2023

1 volume (XXII-511 pages) ; illustrations en noir et en couleurs, couverture illustrée

25 cm

anglais

978-90-04-53964-8

This is the first thorough investigation of the Brummer brothers’ remarkable career as dealers in antiques, curiosities and modernism in Paris and New York over six decades (1906-1964). A dozen specialists aggregate their expertise to explore extant dealer records and museum archives, parse the wide-ranging Brummer stock, and assess how objects were sourced, marketed, labelled, restored, and displayed. The research provides insights into emerging collecting fields as they crystallised, at the crossroads between market and museum. It questions the trope of the tastemaker; the translocation of material culture, and the dealers’ prolific relationships with illustrious collectors, curators, scholars, artists, and fellow dealers. (site éditeur)

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Musée national Picasso-Paris