The Collector : the Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces /: the Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Natalya Semenova with André Delocque ; translated by Anthony Roberts.
• Authors: Semenova, N. I︠U︡
• Editors: Delocque-Fourcaud, André-Marc
• Other Names: Delocque-Fourcaud, André-Marc translator.; (Translator) Roberts, Anthony translator.
• Contents: Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; A NOTE ON THE TEXT; PREFACE; Images; Prologue; The Shchukin family; PART ONE The Collector Brothers; CHAPTER I The Gentleman Who Slept in His Box at the Bolshoy; A cup of tea; CHAPTER II Luther's Bible; CHAPTER III The Tragic Tales of the Older Brothers Nikolai and Petr; A Russian Tintin; The tsaritsa's kettledrum; Tales of Old Russia; The resplendent Petr Shchukin; CHAPTER IV Dmitry Shchukin 'The Dutchman'; The grand duke's grenadier; Dmitry Shchukin and Soviet Russia CHAPTER V Ivan Shchukin Portrait of the Younger Brother as a Parisian DandyPortrait of the Minister for the Arts; PART TWO Sergei Shchukin; CHAPTER VI An Oligarch in Moscow; The siren of the Dnepr; A different world; CHAPTER VII Strangers on a Train; Strangers on a train; The 'Cour des Miracles'; CHAPTER VIII The Storm; Brave little soldiers; Gone missing; CHAPTER IX The Debacle; The master on the mountain; CHAPTER X In the Footsteps of Moses; Mosquitoes and flies; CHAPTER XI The Price of a King's Wife; The Tahitian iconostasis; A heavenly banquet; CHAPTER XII Harmonie en Rouge1 Blue toile de Jouy, glimpsed from an omnibusStill life with figure; CHAPTER XIII The Two Orphans; Dyadya Serezha and Baba Liza; Women and angels; A horse in the desert; CHAPTER XIV Quo Vadis?; Spirit-weariness; The gentleman from the land of the Scythians and the bibliophile count; The Little Flower Girl; CHAPTER XV La Danse and La Musique; The battle of Paris; The battle of Moscow; CHAPTER XVI The City of All-Night Revels; CHAPTER XVII Picasso the Hypnotist; The man who could have bought Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; The two fans; 'Terrifying dwarves' CHAPTER XVIII Portrait of a Chinese Patriarch1914; CHAPTER XIX The Acropolis of the Arts; Red October; CHAPTER XX The Exiles; An astrakhan hat; Quarrelling is easier than parting; CHAPTER XXI The World's First Museum of Modern Art; Farewell to the Trubetskoy Palace; CHAPTER XXII Time Regained; Postscript The Collector of the Future; ENDNOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INDEX
• Publisher Details: New Haven : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 709.2; Art patrons -- Russia -- Biography; Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Russia -- History; Mécènes -- Russie -- Biographies; Art -- Collectionneurs et collections -- Russie -- Histoire; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers; ART -- History -- General; ART -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945); Art -- Collectors and collecting; Art patrons; Russia; collective biographies; Biographies; History; Biographies; Biographies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780300241075; 0300241070
• Related ISBNs: 9780300234770; 0300234775
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 10, 2018).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.