The Devil and Dr. Barnes: Portrait of an American Art CollectorBiography of Dr. Barnes, one of the most colorful, bizarre, and visionary figure in the American art world in the last century. |
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... Stein quickly turned it down , explaining that he was not a dealer and that ... Leo . Two years older than his sister Gertrude ( like Barnes , he was born ... Leo Stein often parted company over matters of aesthetics and clashed because ...
... Stein quickly turned it down , explaining that he was not a dealer and that ... Leo . Two years older than his sister Gertrude ( like Barnes , he was born ... Leo Stein often parted company over matters of aesthetics and clashed because ...
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... Leo Stein , then in Italy , telling him that his own Renoirs , sixteen of them , were for sale and asking his friend to make an offer . Barnes was intrigued . The price of Renoirs had soared since the artist's death in 1919 - the doctor ...
... Leo Stein , then in Italy , telling him that his own Renoirs , sixteen of them , were for sale and asking his friend to make an offer . Barnes was intrigued . The price of Renoirs had soared since the artist's death in 1919 - the doctor ...
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... Leo Stein . Relations between the two men had been unfriendly since their bitter quarrel over The Art in Painting - they had been , in Stein's words , " on unspeaking terms . " They had reconciled during a brief meeting in a Parisian ...
... Leo Stein . Relations between the two men had been unfriendly since their bitter quarrel over The Art in Painting - they had been , in Stein's words , " on unspeaking terms . " They had reconciled during a brief meeting in a Parisian ...
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