368 pages
English language
Published 2011 by Penguin Random House, Vintage Books.
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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
- Netsukes
- Jews, biography
- Art, private collections
- Jewish families
- Bankers
- Businesspeople, biography
- Art, collectors and collecting