The Hare With Amber Eyes : : a Family's Century of art and Loss

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"Originally published in 2010 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain, as The hare with amber eyes: a hidden inheritance"--T.p. verso.
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.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 354 p. : ill., maps, geneal. table ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374105976
0374105979

SUBJECTS
Ephrussi family.
Ephrussi, Charles, -- 1849-1905 -- Art collections.
De Waal, Edmund -- Travel -- Europe.
De Waal, Edmund -- Family.
Netsukes -- Private collections -- London.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- Biography.
Jewish bankers -- Europe -- Biography.
Jewish businesspeople -- Europe -- Biography.