Walter feilchenfeldt cezanne biography
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By Appointment Only: C�zanne, Van Gogh and Some Secrets of Art Dealing - Hardcover
Synopsis
One of the most distinguished experts on van Gogh and Cezanne sums up a lifetime of research and discoveries.
In the art trade, research and judgment meet in a special way. Good or bad, genuine or fakethese are questions that often prove to be more urgent and to have more repercussions than in the academic field.
This is especially true when it comes to the two great forerunners of modern art: van Gogh and Cezanne. Unrecognized outsiders in their lifetime, their paintings grew in the twentieth century to be the most sought after and expensive works in the entire art market. How this astonishing development came about, what tangled paths these paintings took, and what fakes and false attributions played a part in thisthese are the subjects Walter Feilchenfeldt discusses, with the advantage of his forty years of experience as an international adviser in the art trade. He explores a grea
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Expertise
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Of course an art dealer is expected to vouch for the authenticity of the artworks he is selling. However, as the market prices for art have exploded, the status of the art expert has attained a significance that exceeds the responsibilities of the ordinary art dealer by far. In the course of the gradual publication of oeuvre catalogues of important artists of the past centuries, we have come to think that for each artist there is one expert to decide on the authenticity of works proposed to him. The auction houses present the unregistered works to the relevant experts and sell them – if the result is positive – as an authentic work, that a) will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné, b) that will be included in a supplement to any existing catalogue raisonné, or c) that it is accompanied with the expert’s certificate of authenticity. Furthermore there are cases when a work, registered in the existing
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The Paintings of Paul Cézanne
The plate volume reproduces all 954 paintings, with titles, dimensions and dates, and is chronologically arranged bygd Rewald’s new dating and numbering, with the works grouped bygd subject. Walter Feilchenfeldt introduces the book’s history and issues of dating, chronology and authenticity. Each painting is accompanied by a detailed commentary, which draws on an enormous variety of sources, and for over half the paintings, the commentary consists of a lengthy essay. Of special interest are the 200 documentary photographs integrated with the entries, which provide the scholar and admirer of Cézanne’s work with much fascinating visual information, including biographical portraits, landscape motifs and objects found in Cézanne’s studio. Fifty-eight magnificent colour reproductions of the largest paintings also appear in this volume, which concludes with important indices of owners, exhibitions and works; an extensive bibliography; and a concordance of Ventur