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Title: Homage to Rene Gimpel : Memorial Exhibition to Mark the Publication of His Diary
Description: London, Gimpel Fils, 1966. Softcover. Butterscotch stapled wraps, 24 pp, unpaginated, unillustrated. An exhibition of artwork, letters, manuscripts, ad other memorabilia of this "prominent French art dealer, friend and patron of living artists and collector (1881 - 1945). His witty and acerbic Journal d'un Collectionneur, translated and published as Diary of an Art Dealer, are a primary source for the contemporary history of modern art and of collecting between the World Wars. Trained in the classic traditions of connoisseurship, a great admirer of Chardin, Gimpel had an instinctive sympathy for the modern contemporaries among whom he moved: Georges Braque, Mary Cassatt, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and above all, his intimate friend Marie Laurencin. The friend of Anatole France, and Marcel Proust in his last years, he had a selective high regard for many museum professionals." - Wikipedia. Quite scarce. VG, has one small stamp on front cover ("Gift of Dr. Israel Rosen), small area with tiny impressions at top cover.

Keywords: European Art ; Gimpel Fils ; ;

Price: US$ 29.97 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 130893

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