The Importance of Being Spitzer
The Frick Center for the History of Collecting in America, New York, NY, USA, 28 June 2016
American collectors at the turn of the 20th century eagerly sought out Medieval and Renaissance art once held in the collection of the notorious art dealer Frédéric Spitzer, 1816–1890.
Paola Cordera, the Center for the History of Collecting’s Leon Levy Fellow, discusses how a Spitzer provenance became the standard for quality for Golden Age Collectors and the subsequent decline of his reputation.
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