Bonking with Berenson
Nicholas Penny, 17 September 1987
Bernard Berenson. Vol. II: The Making of a Legend
by Ernest Samuels.
Harvard, 680 pp., £19.95, May 1987,0 674 06779 7 Show More
by Ernest Samuels.
Harvard, 680 pp., £19.95, May 1987,
The Partnership: The Secret Association of Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen
by Colin Simpson.
Bodley Head, 323 pp., £15, April 1987,9780370305851 Show More
by Colin Simpson.
Bodley Head, 323 pp., £15, April 1987,
“... world’. Berenson’s recorded utterances sound all too self-consciously sagacious. ‘Young John Carter Brown, who one day was to become director of the National Gallery of Art’, came with a plan ‘to prepare for a museum career by first taking a business course’. Berenson urged him to ‘look, look, look, until you are blind with looking, and out ... ”