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period no less precious
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Remembrance
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Things
Past"-sIRHERBERTREAD
Diary
of an
Art
Dealer
By RENE GIMPEL
Translated
by
John Rosenberg
Foreword by
Sir Herbert Read
$10.95, now at
your bookstore .
R
ENE GIMPEL-who hap–
pened to be the brother–
in-law of Sir Joseph Duveen
- was one of the great art
dealers of the golden age in
Paris from 1918 to 1939. He
died during the war in a
Nazi labor camp. His diary
contains marvelous word
portraits of Monet, Mary
Cassatt, Berenson, Degas,
Soutine, Braque, Picasso, Fo–
rain, Matisse, the dying
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Renoir, and dozens of others.
There are also wonderful de–
scriptions of Edward
VIII,
Proust's funeral, Woodrow
Wilson, Lindbergh, and the .
half-pathetic, half-grotesque
American millionaires who
wanted the best that money
!
could buy. This is a contin–
uously entertaining, histori–
cally priceless record of men
and events.
With 40 pages of
photographs.
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&
GIROUX
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