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Publisher
USA/North America, D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
"The success of the Galerie Beyeler, which led Ernst and Hildy Beyeler to found the Fondation Beyeler, began sixty years ago. Around sixteen thousand paintings, sculptures, and works on paper - not including prints and editions - passed through Baumleingasse 9, where the Beyelers took over an antiquarian bookstore in 1945. Its transformation into an art gallery was complete by 1947, and the address in Basel remains unchanged to this day." "An exemplary...
Publisher
Hatje Cantz
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
"Like no other artist, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) left his mark on the modern era with his exhaustive, protean body of work. The reception of his oeuvre is inseparably bound to his collectors in Basel, such as Raoul La Roche, Rudolf Staechelin, Karl Im Obersteg, and Maja Sacher-Stehlin, as well as to the Basel-based art historians Georg Schmidt and Christian Geelhaar, who recognized early on the key role he would play in twentieth-century art. This...
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