Arthur Jeffress
Subtitle: a life in art
By: Gill Hedley
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: 2020
Place of publication: London [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781838602840; 9781838602826; 9781838602833
Subjects: Biography; Art dealers
Description: "Arthur Jeffress was an art dealer and collector from a Virginian family who bequeathed his "subversive little collection" (Derek Hill) to Tate and Southampton City Art Gallery on his suicide in 1961. That suicide, a result of his expulsion from Venice, has been the subject of speculation in many memoirs. Gill Hedley's biography of Jeffress has benefited from access to many hundreds of unpublished letters written between Jeffress and Robert Melville, who ran Jeffress' own gallery from 1955-1961. The letters were written largely while Jeffress was in Venice and reveal a vivid picture of the London gallery world as well as frank details of artists, collectors and the definitive story of his suicide. Previously unpublished research reveals new information about the lives of Jeffress' lover John Deakin, his business partner Erica Brausen, the French photographer André Ostier and Henry Clifford, and the way in which all of them influenced Jeffress' first steps as a collector from the 1930s onwards."--
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. Virginia and New York; title: 2. Acton and Tobacco; title: 3. Harrow and the Far East; title: 4. Cambridge; title: 5. 1925 and its Consequences; title: 6. Grand Tours; title: 7. A Medley of Extemporanea; title: 8. "The Muff was Particularly Unfortunate"; title: 9. John Deakin and New Homes; title: 10. The Zam Zam Adventure; title: 11. "I Shall Still Be Hungry in the Spring"; title: 12. "What A Lovely War. What Shall I Do At the End of It"; title: 13. "Tante Cose"; title: 14. Modern Art to Frighten the Horses in Hampshire; title: 15. Erica Brausen; title: 16, The Hanover Gallery; title: 17. "Arthur Jeffress for Painting"; title: 18. Gentle Friends 19. Portrait of Arthur Jeffress; title: 20. Dear Robert, Love Art; title: 21. Private Lives; title: 22. "My Love to the Wife and Kids"; title: 23. Life in Venice; title: 24. Death in Paris; title: 25. At Home in Sunlight.