The Hare with Amber Eyes
A Family's Century of Art and Loss
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: 354 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 22 cm
Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.
Contents:
Paris 1871-1899 -- Vienna 1899-1938 -- Vienna Kövecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna 1938-1947 -- Tokyo 1947-2001 -- Tokyo, Odessa, London 2001-2009.
Subjects:
Ephrussi family.
Ephrussi, Charles, 1849-1905 -- Art collections.
De Waal, Edmund -- Travel -- Europe.
De Waal, Edmund -- Family.
Netsukes -- Private collections -- England -- London.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- Biography.
Jewish bankers -- Europe -- Biography.
Jewish businesspeople -- Europe -- Biography.
Ephrussi family.
Ephrussi, Charles, 1849-1905 -- Art collections.
De Waal, Edmund -- Travel -- Europe.
De Waal, Edmund -- Family.
Netsukes -- Private collections -- England -- London.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- Biography.
Jewish bankers -- Europe -- Biography.
Jewish businesspeople -- Europe -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780374105976 (alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Ephrussi, Charles | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
"Originally published in 2010 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain, as The hare with amber eyes: a hidden inheritance"--Title page verso.