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The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone | 
 enlarge | Author: Mary Gabriel
Publisher: Bancroft Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 688141
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 282
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1890862061
Dewey Decimal Number: 709
EAN: 9781890862060
ASIN: 1890862061
Publication Date: August 18, 2002
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Product Description
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.
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 Cone Heads April 19, 2008
Dr. Cone and her sister, Etta, amassed one of the best art collections in American history. How and when they did this is the tale contained in this nice effort by Mary Gabriel.
Those interested in European art as created in the early part of the last century, by such people as Picasso and above all Matisse, will be interested in buying this book, as well as those who just want a slice of cultural history of the period. (And if you have a keen interest in Gertrude Stein, you will also want to read this rewarding, yet stylistically simple, work.)
I have visited the Cone Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art and urge all interested in great art to make the same pilgrimage.
Excellent historical read! November 19, 2007
This is a great and fascinating read. If you like history, art and eccentric people this will really please you. It is a slice of Americana and art history we never read...those who are art collectors and actually make artists famous. The women in this story were Victorian and liberated all in the same breath. Very fun!
Fascinating women fascinating story May 17, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I happened upon this book quite by accident but was intrigued just from reading the book jacket and it did not disappoint. The story read like a novel yet it was meticulously researched. The Cone sisters were visionary collectors who supported Matisse, Picasso, Cezanne and others by purchasing their work when the rest of the snooty art world shunned it and tagged it obscene. These extraordinary women led unconventional lives, befriended artists and authors (Gertrude Stein among them) along the way and definitely marched to their own drums. And lucky for the Baltimore Art Museum that they did since their collection was estimated to be worth about $1 billion. No book has ever made me want to visit Baltimore before but I plan to go there to see the Cone Collection.
A work of art! November 1, 2002
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Pay no attention to the ho-hum title -- this is one delightful read. The book illuminates two sisters who had been virtually written out of art history. The author richly embroiders the travels of Claribel and Etta Cone and details how they came to amass one of the world's more comprehsive collections of 20th century art. This painstakingly and lovingly researched book is a masterpiece!
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