Based on an extensive and very meticulous study of different archives and the evaluation of original, previously unpublished, archival material, this book highl

The volume exposes the modus operandi of Wilhelm Bode’s strategic involvement in the art market and the formation and dissolution of public and private collec

This volume explores the crucial role of art dealers in creating a transatlantic art market in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “There was m

On the basis of extensive archival research, the essays in this volume examine the minutiae of object transaction in the late nineteenth-century art market with

Forming a collection -- Transacting an entire collection -- Dealers for dealers -- (No longer) obscure agents -- Issues of attribution.