353 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 2010 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
3 stars
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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 Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.
Subjects
- Jewish businesspeople
- Jewish bankers
- Art
- Family
- Netsukes
- Travel
- Art collections
- Collectors and collecting
- Biography
- Private collections
Places
- Europe
- England
- London