An edition of Sixteen to Sixty (1961)

Sixteen to sixty

memoirs of a collector.

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read
Sixteen to sixty
Louisine W. Havemeyer
Not in Library

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

Buy this book

Last edited by WorkBot
December 15, 2009 | History
An edition of Sixteen to Sixty (1961)

Sixteen to sixty

memoirs of a collector.

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

"This is not an absolutely correct title, for I began collecting before I was sixteen and I am now over sixty and I am still collecting, but it will serve." Thus begins Louisine W. Havemeyer's memoir, a rare Gilded Age testimonial on forming one of America's greatest art collections. And it was as a teenager in Paris in 1874 that she met the thirty-year-old artist Mary Cassatt who would lead her to Degas's Ballet Rehearsal in a shop window.

By the time she was twenty-two she had also acquired works by Pissarro and Monet. She was very probably the first American to collect the work of these three artists.

.

After her marriage to the "sugar king," H. O. Havemeyer, they collected Asian art in quantity and Old Master and Barbizon paintings. In the 1890s, they would return to Mrs. Havemeyer's initial enthusiasm: modern French painting. They formed major collections of the works of Corot, Courbet, Manet, Degas, and Monet. Mrs. Havemeyer also describes their passion for El Greco and Goya.

She relates her encounters with fellow collectors such as Henry Clay Frick, Charles Lang Freer, and Isabella Stewart Gardner; as well as her dealings with art dealers such as Paul Durand-Ruel and Ambroise Vollard.

"Museums have histories of their own, but how little is known of the making of private collections." And so Mrs.

Havemeyer "...jot[ted] down the interesting stories... concerning the purchase of this picture or that object, to relate the rare remarks of the celebrated painters [she] met, to record the curious circumstances attending the purchase of some unusual work of art, to keep for the following generations... valuable information for art collectors." And for all readers interested in connoisseurship, nineteenth-century art, and the cultural education of America.

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: Sixteen to Sixty
Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector (A Nancy Richardson Book)
March 1993, Ursus Press
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Sixteen to Sixty
Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector
March 1993, Ursus Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: Sixteen to sixty
Sixteen to sixty: memoirs of a collector.
1961, Priv. Print. for the family of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details


Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
N8384.H3 A3

The Physical Object

Pagination
267 p. :
Number of pages
267

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL20874594M

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
December 15, 2009 Edited by WorkBot link works
October 30, 2008 Created by ImportBot Imported from University of Toronto MARC record