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The hare with amber eyes : a family's century of art and loss
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Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Ma...
Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.
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- Creator
- Edmund de Waal
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First American edition
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010
- Physical Details
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- 354 pages : illustrations, genealogical table, portraits ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780374105976, 0374105979
- OCLC
- ocn611151748
- "Originally published in 2010 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain, as The hare with amber eyes: a hidden inheritance"--T.p. verso.
- Paris 1871-1899 -- Vienna 1899-1938 -- Vienna Kövecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna 1938-1947 -- Tokyo 1947-2001 -- Tokyo, Odessa, London 2001-2009
Subjects
- Ephrussi family.
- Ephrussi, Charles, 1849-1905 -- Art collections.
- De Waal, Edmund -- Travel -- Europe.
- De Waal, Edmund -- Family.
- Netsukes -- Private collections -- England -- London.
- Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- Biography.
- Jewish bankers -- Europe -- Biography.
- Jewish businesspeople -- Europe -- Biography.