The vanished collection
Baer de Perignon, Pauline2023
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Here is a charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a woman will go to find the truth about her family. 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?
Main title:
The vanished collection / Pauline Baer de Perignon ; translated by Natasha Lehrer.
Author:
Baer de Perignon, Pauline, authorLehrer, Natasha, translator
Imprint:
London : Apollo, 2023.
Collation:
256 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781803280912 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
940.531813940.5318940.531 BAER
Language:
EnglishFrench
Subject:
Baer de Perignon, PaulineWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- France -- ParisArt treasures in war -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th centuryJewish property -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th centuryHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and artStrauss family -- Art collectionsWarfare and Defence
BRN:
2559361
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