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The Vanished Collection: Fun with Numbers, Letters, Shapes, Colors, and Animals!
The Vanished Collection: Fun with Numbers, Letters, Shapes, Colors, and Animals! | Pauline Baer de Perignon
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It all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn't seen for years, were the names of the masters whose works once belonged to her great-grandfather, Jules Strauss: Renoir, Monet, Degas, Tiepolo and more. Pauline Baer de Perignon knew little to nothing about Strauss, or about his vanished, precious art collection. But the list drove her on a frenzied trail of research in the archives of the Louvre and the Dresden museums, through Gestapo records, and to consult with Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. What happened in 1942? And what became of the collection after Nazis seized her great-grandparents' elegant Parisian apartment? The quest takes Pauline Baer de Perignon from the Occupation of France to the present day as she breaks the silence around the wrenching experiences her family never fully transmitted, and asks what art itself is capable of conveying over time.
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I know this story because I see portions of my own in it…
In the case of Baer de Perignon, it started with a list of paintings — Renoir, Degas, Tiepolo — artists her great-grandfather, Jules Strauss, collected. The Vanished Collection (out in Jan) offers a candid look at the complexities of provenance archival research, family history, and asking difficult questions about the past. A loving ode to her great-gpa and his passion for fine art.