Description
Lively in London, Paris, and New York, Duveen Brothers used to be probably the most distinguished artwork and vintage broker from the past due 19th to the mid-20th century. The company’s good fortune got here from shopping for furnishings, tapestries, porcelain, and different objets d’artwork and promoting it at top costs to wealthy American citizens, together with Henry Clay Frick, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Arabella Huntington, and John Pierpont Morgan. Making intensive use of Duveen Brothers information on the Getty Analysis Institute, in addition to letters and invoices within the information of the company’s shoppers, Vignon supplies a wealthy have a look at of this influential company within the historical past of amassing.
