Impressionism for England. Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector.

Stiff pictorial wrappers. Fine. London, Courtauld Institute Galleries, 1994. 4to. 28,5 x 23,5 cms. viii + 256 pp. Richly illustrated in colour. With index. Contents: "Impressionism and its Contexts" by John House, "Modern French Art for the Nation: Samuel Courtauld's Collection and Patronage in Context" by John House, "'An Anatomy of Taste': Samuel Courtauld and Debates about Art Patronage and Modernism in Britain in the Inter-War Years" by Andrew Stephenson, "The Courtauld Family and its Money" by John Murdoch, "Catalogue" by John House and William Bradford. (Paintings. Sculpture. Drawings. Prints.) With "Checklist of Samuel Courtauld's Acquisitions of Modern French Paintings" by Elizabeth Prettejohn, "Modern Foreign Paintings and the National Art Collections: Anthology of British Texts, 1905-32" by Elizabeth Prettejohn. - - - In 1923 the industrialist Samuel Courtauld gave £50,000 to the British government to encourage the purchase of a collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. At the same time, he continued to build up his own fine collection of French late nineteenth-century paintings, most of which he later gave to the Courtauld Institute of Art. This beautiful book tells the story of Courtauld's collecting and patronage.…