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Title:Art of Acquiring : A Portrait of Etta & Claribel Cone
Author:Mary Gabriel
ISBN:1890862061 : 9781890862060
Format:Hardback
Size:152x228mm
Weight: .201 Kg.
Published:R&D (Bancroft Press) - March 1999
List Price: 23.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Exhibition catalogues and specific collections: Biography & autobiography: general


Heiresses to a family fortune, Etta and Claribel Cone, Jewish sisters from Baltimore, amassed a major collection of modern French artworks. Their Victorian demeanour and dress belied two free-spirited eccentrics whose bold purchases of avant-garde, sometimes erotic art shocked early 20th-century society. They bought paintings by Matisse, Picasso, Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh, Manet, Redon, Pissarro, and others. After their death, their collection was bequeathed to the Baltimore Museum of Art.