Hare with Amber Eyes

A Family's Century of Art and Loss

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Edmund de Waal: Hare with Amber Eyes (2010, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

368 pages

English language

Published 2010 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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978-1-4299-7959-7
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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.

22 editions

Subjects

  • Netsukes
  • Art, collectors and collecting
  • Art, private collections
  • Businesspeople, biography
  • Jews, biography
  • Bankers
  • Jewish families