TIAMSA is pleased to announce its seventeenth book discussion: Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market, C. 1860–1940: Negotiating Cultural Modernity (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025). Editor Silvia Davoli (Strawberry Hill House and University of Oxford) and Tom Stammers (Courtauld Institute) will discuss their new book, followed by a conversation with Marta Herrero (University of York).
The event will be moderated by Véronique Chagnon-Burke (Chair-TIAMSA and Co-Founder of Women Art Dealers Digital Archives). All are welcome to join the discussion!
To attend the discussion please register on the link.
About the book:
Before the tragedy of the Holocaust, many of the leading art and antiques dealers across Europe were Jewish, establishing dynamic cross-Channel, international and transatlantic networks. Aside from a few famous examples, however, we are only at the beginning of exploring the diversity of Jewish dealers’ commercial and cultural worlds, and reflecting on the particular conditions that made possible their dramatic expansion within the art and antiques business.
A new book from Bloomsbury brings together a team of distinguished international contributors to consider Jewish art dealers as an interconnected cohort, tied together by common strategies and a shared vulnerability. Spanning the decades 1860-1940 the essays consider Jewish family businesses in Western Europe; the role of Jews as mediators of art from East Asia; the antisemitism and suspicion faced by Jewish dealers; Jews as theorists, exhibition makers and promoters of modern art ; and the geographical mobility and professional reinvention of Jewish dealers in times of economic and political crisis.
The volume’s editors- Tom Stammers and Silvia Davoli- will introduce presentations from contributors including Giovanni Casini (on Léonce Rosenberg), Elizabeth Emery (on Asian art dealer Florine Langweil), Camille Mestdagh (on Parisian auctioneer on Charles Mannheim) and Esméee Quodbach (on Dutch dealer Leo Nardus).
For further information : masoom.pincha@artmarketstudies.org
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