Londres – New York – Paris : le commerce international de Duveen Frères entre 1880 et 1910
Duveen Frères, the prestigious gallery of art objects and paintings established in London and in New York at the end of the nineteenth century and in Paris in 1908, played an important role in the exodus of European national heritage to the United States. Based on unpublished archival documents and...
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| フォーマット: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 言語: | Français |
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2019
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | Duveen Frères, the prestigious gallery of art objects and paintings established in London and in New York at the end of the nineteenth century and in Paris in 1908, played an important role in the exodus of European national heritage to the United States. Based on unpublished archival documents and a critical reading of sources, this article proposes going back from 1880 to 1910, those years when the three eminent members of the family – Joel, Henry and Joseph Duveen – conquered the American market and became the most influential dealers of their generation handling French 18th century furniture and art objects. Through the study of their commerce of French 18th century furniture and art objects, the author explains how the Duveens transformed the international commerce of art and forever changed the American artistic and cultural scene. Not only did they import to the United States a phenomenal quantity of French 18th century furniture and art objects, often of major importance, they also imposed themselves as the authorities for determining the authenticity and the attributions during a period particularly conducive to the commerce of fakes. They initiated an entire generation of Americans into the knowledge of this furniture and these antique art objects as well as to the pleasure of surrounding themselves with them. Their influence was all the more important as these Americans were part of the elite of society, those who gave the tone and determined fashion. The Duveens established a hierarchy of the objects that were the “must haves,” dictating the way to place them in an interior. Through their commerce of art objects and their activity as decorators, which were intimately tied to each other, the Duveens created the environment in which the elite of American society lived and defined itself in the beginning of the twentieth century. In the United States, they imposed the way in which these objects were seen, understood, exhibited and used – not only in the domestic environment of the homes of their clients, but also in art galleries and in the museums of the period. |
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