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The hare with amber eyes : a family's century of art and loss / Edmund de Waal.

Title
The hare with amber eyes : a family's century of art and loss / Edmund de Waal.
Author
De Waal, Edmund
Publication
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.

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Description
354 p. : ill., maps, geneal. table; 22 cm.
Summary
Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.
Subject
  • De Waal, Edmund > Family
  • Ephrussi, Charles, 1849-1905 > Art collections
  • Netsukes > Private collections
Genre/Form
Biographies
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Paris 1871-1899 -- Vienna 1899-1938 -- Vienna Kövecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna 1938-1947 -- Tokyo 1947-2001 -- Tokyo, Odessa, London 2001-2009.
ISBN
  • 9780374105976 (trade)
  • 0374105979 (trade)
LCCN
^^2010025539
OCLC
  • 611151748
  • SCSB-12875931
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library