The Hare with Amber Eyes
A Hidden Inheritance
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Format: Book
Edition: First revised edition and ill. American edition.
Description: 418 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 264 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.
Contents:
pt. 1. Paris, 1871-1899 -- pt. 2. Vienna, 1899-1938 -- pt. 3. Vienna, Kovecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna, 1938-1947 -- pt. 4. Tokyo, 1947-2001 -- Coda. Tokyo, Odessa, London, 2001-2009.
Subjects:
Ephrussi family.
De Waal, Edmund -- Travel -- Europe.
Jewish bankers -- Europe -- Biography.
Jewish businesspeople -- Europe -- Biography.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- Biography.
Netsukes -- Private collections -- England -- London.
Ephrussi family.
De Waal, Edmund -- Travel -- Europe.
Jewish bankers -- Europe -- Biography.
Jewish businesspeople -- Europe -- Biography.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- Biography.
Netsukes -- Private collections -- England -- London.
ISBN:
9780374168285
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Ephrussi Family | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
BIOGRAPHY Ephrussi Family | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |