‘It’s a Very Rich Story’: The Complicated Connection Between Manet and Degas
The Compagnia was not a guild but a club-like mutual aid society or fraternity. Other members who registered and paid dues in 1472 included Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Ghirlandaio, Pollaiuolo, Filippino Lippi, and Verrocchio himself.41 The Compagnia had been in existence for a century, but it was undergoing a revitalization partly because artists
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artists’ reputations are enhanced or contaminated by the people who own their work.
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
David Teiger, a New York–based collector in his late seventies.
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong?
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Picasso was a millionaire by 1914 and a multimillionaire by the end of World War I; and his wealth continued to grow, so that by the time of his death he was by far the richest artist who had ever lived. He made a deal with the French government over inheritance taxes, and as a result, in 1985 the Musée Picasso opened in Paris. There, his work of a
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