Irascible - Clark, Adrian; Calvocoressi, Richard
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A pioneering collector of Cubist art, the English art historian and critic Douglas Cooper was one of the most important—and controversial—figures in the international art world of the 20th century   Born into a wealthy family whose money was made in the 19th century in Australia, Cooper (1911- 1984) built up much of his collection of works by Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger in the 1930s. He also trained himself to become a respected art historian, his reputation as a scholar resting largely on his catalogue of the Courtauld Collection (1954) and his catalogue raisonné of Juan Gris (1977). He…mehr

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A pioneering collector of Cubist art, the English art historian and critic Douglas Cooper was one of the most important—and controversial—figures in the international art world of the 20th century   Born into a wealthy family whose money was made in the 19th century in Australia, Cooper (1911- 1984) built up much of his collection of works by Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger in the 1930s. He also trained himself to become a respected art historian, his reputation as a scholar resting largely on his catalogue of the Courtauld Collection (1954) and his catalogue raisonné of Juan Gris (1977). He also curated exhibitions of Gauguin, Braque and two major displays of Cubism. The second of these, The Essential Cubism, held at the Tate Gallery in 1983, was one of the most remarkable accumulations of Cubist painting, sculpture and drawings ever assembled.   Based on extensive research and packed with new material and fresh interpretations, IRASCIBLE! focuses attention on Cooper’s colourful life and significant accomplishments: his financing and directorship of the Mayor Gallery in London as a very young man in the 1930s, when he became close to artists such as Francis Bacon, Paul Nash, Henry Moore, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, and Max Ernst; his wartime experiences as an ambulance driver in support of the collapsing French army in 1940; his job as a senior Monuments Man in charge of tracking down Nazi-looted art in Switzerland; his move to Provence in the early 1950s, taking his collection with him; and his legendary clashes with leading figures and institutions in the British art world. This book is the definitive account of Cooper’s collecting, art dealing, writing and curating.
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Autorenporträt
Adrian Clark has published extensively on various British artists and is the author of a biography of John Rothenstein, director (1938–64) of the Tate Gallery and Cooper’s bête noire. He also co-wrote, with Jeremy Dronfield, a biography of the collector and financier of Horizon magazine, Peter Watson. Richard Calvocoressi is a senior curator at Gagosian in London. He was previously director of the Henry Moore Foundation and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, where he acquired masterpieces from the collection of Cooper’s rival, Sir Roland Penrose. He has published on numerous artists, including Oskar Kokoschka, Paul Klee, Lee Miller, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Georg Baselitz, and Anselm Kiefer.