Berenson’s Elixir
Simon Schama, 1 May 1980
Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur
by Ernest Samuels.
Harvard, 477 pp., £9.50, June 1979,0 674 06775 4 Show More
by Ernest Samuels.
Harvard, 477 pp., £9.50, June 1979,
Being Bernard Berenson
by Meryle Secrest.
Weidenfeld, 473 pp., £8.50, January 1980,0 297 77564 2 Show More
by Meryle Secrest.
Weidenfeld, 473 pp., £8.50, January 1980,
“... States, where the big-game of major-league millionaires – Peter Widener, James G. Johnson, Samuel Kress – had leapt to profit from his publicised expertise. This was sometimes prompted by motives of undisguised envy and covetousness amongst themselves. On learning of BB’s descent on Widener’s optimistically attributed collection J.P. Morgan ... ”