The Vanished Collection: Stolen masterpieces, family secrets and one woman's quest for the truth
Autor Pauline Baer de Perignon Traducere de Natasha Lehreren Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 ian 2023
'As devourable as a thriller... Incredibly moving' Elle
'Pauline Baer de Perignon is a natural storyteller - refreshingly honest, curious and open' Menachem Kaiser
'A terrific book' Le Point
It all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn't seen for years, were the names of the masters whose works once belonged to her great-grandfather, Jules Strauss: Renoir, Monet, Degas, Tiepolo and more. Pauline Baer de Perignon knew little to nothing about Strauss, or about his vanished, precious art collection.
But the list drove her on a frenzied trail of research in the archives of the Louvre and the Dresden museums, through Gestapo records, and to consult with Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. What happened in 1942? And what became of the collection after Nazis seized her great-grandparents' elegant Parisian apartment?
The quest takes Pauline Baer de Perignon from the Occupation of France to the present day as she breaks the silence around the wrenching experiences her family never fully transmitted, and asks what art itself is capable of conveying over time.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781803280912
ISBN-10: 1803280913
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Apollo
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1803280913
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Apollo
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Pauline Baer de Perignon is a natural storyteller - refreshingly honest, curious and open. Like the best memoirists, she manages to tell multiple stories simultaneously, to delicately layer meanings and narratives
A charmingly told account of a woman's quest to reconstruct her great-grandfather's art collection
Beautifully evokes a vanished world that once stood at the crossroads between the heights of civilization and the depths of barbarism before being overwhelmed by the latter
A terrific book
As devourable as a thriller... Incredibly moving'
Pauline Baer de Perignon transforms an unfortunately commonplace account of paintings stolen by the Nazis into a breathtaking novel of suspense
Grips ever tighter as the investigation proceeds
Combines dogged detective work with family memoir
A charmingly told account of a woman's quest to reconstruct her great-grandfather's art collection
Beautifully evokes a vanished world that once stood at the crossroads between the heights of civilization and the depths of barbarism before being overwhelmed by the latter
A terrific book
As devourable as a thriller... Incredibly moving'
Pauline Baer de Perignon transforms an unfortunately commonplace account of paintings stolen by the Nazis into a breathtaking novel of suspense
Grips ever tighter as the investigation proceeds
Combines dogged detective work with family memoir
Notă biografică
Pauline Baer de Perignon has co-authored film scripts and directed writing workshops in Paris where she lives. The Vanished Collection is her first book.