Bidspirit auction | All the Empty Palaces: Great

All the Empty Palaces: Great Merchant Patrons of Modern Art in Pre-revolutionary Russia by Beverly Whitney Kean (Author) - London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1983. 342 pp., il., 24.8 by 17.6 cm Ex-Library book, but otherwise in very good condition with some wear to the dust jacket. Brings to life the the merchant aristocracy and their patronage of the arts at the turn of the 19th-20th century; their society, the turbulent period in which they lived, and the collections of art themselves. With anecdotal material about Diaghilev, Repin, Benois, Bakst, Shalyapin, Stanislavsky, Gertrude and Leo Stein, Kahnweiler, and many others. The author charts the effect of the collections on Russian critics and public and on other Russian artists. English Edition. Rare to find.