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De Waal, Edmund.
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De Waal, Edmund -- Correspondence.
Camondo, Moïse de, comte, 1860-1935 -- Correspondence.
Camondo family.
Musée Nissim de Camondo.
Imaginary letters.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
Jewish capitalists and financiers -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
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De Waal, Edmund.
De Waal, Edmund -- Correspondence.
Camondo, Moïse de, comte, 1860-1935 -- Correspondence.
Camondo family.
Musée Nissim de Camondo.
Imaginary letters.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
Jewish capitalists and financiers -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
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Letters to
Camondo
/ Edmund
de
Waal.
by
De
Waal, Edmund.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Call #:
707.5 D515L
Subjects
De
Waal, Edmund -- Correspondence.
Camondo
, Moïse
de
, comte, 1860-1935 -- Correspondence.
Camondo
family.
Musée
Nissim
de
Camondo
.
Imaginary letters.
Art -- Collectors and collecting --
France
--
Paris
-- Biography.
Jewish capitalists and financiers --
France
--
Paris
-- Biography.
ISBN:
9780374603489 (hc)
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
182 p. : ill. (some color) ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"A tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise
de
Camondo
. Letters to
Camondo
is a collection of imaginary letters from Edmund
de
Waal to Moise
de
Camondo
, the banker and art collector who created a spectacular house in
Paris
, now the
Musée
Nissim
de
Camondo
, and filled it with the greatest private collection of French eighteenth-century art. The Camondos were a Jewish family from Constantinople, “the Rothschilds of the East,” who made their home in
Paris
in the 1870s and became philanthropists, art collectors, and fixtures of Belle Époque high society, as well as being targets of antisemitism -- much like
de
Waal's relations, the Ephrussi family, to whom they were connected. Moise
de
Camondo
created a spectacular house and filled it with art for his son,
Nissim
; after
Nissim
was killed in the First World War, the house was bequeathed to the French state. Eventually, the Camondos were murdered by the Nazis. After
de
Waal, one of the world’s greatest ceramic artists, was invited to make an exhibition in the
Camondo
house, he began to write letters to Moise
de
Camondo
. These fifty letters are deeply personal reflections on assimilation, melancholy, family, art, the vicissitudes of history, and the value of memory."--Publisher.
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