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- Title
Sir Philip Sassoon at 25 Park Lane: the collection of an early twentieth-century connoisseur and aesthete.
- Authors
Fecker, Marc
- Abstract
Sir Philip Sassoon (1888–1939) housed the largest and most valuable part of his collection in his lavish Park Lane residence in London. It was demolished in the early 1960s and the collection is now dispersed. This paper reconstructs the collection at Park Lane, which consisted predominantly of French eighteenth-century fine and decorative art, as well as English eighteenth-century portraiture and works by contemporary artists, many of which were commissioned by Sassoon. It explores how he moulded the collection he inherited from his parents and his maternal grandparents, Gustave and Cécile de Rothschild, to his own taste, and to his own time, while continuing the Rothschild tradition. Overall, Sassoon emerges as an aesthete who appreciated the sensory qualities of objects and interiors, and as a connoisseur who made some significant acquisitions.
- Subjects
18TH century English art; 18TH century decorative arts; SASSOON, Philip; PRIVATE art collections; TAPESTRY; INTERIOR decoration; DOMESTIC architecture; EIGHTEENTH century
- Publication
Journal of the History of Collections, 2019, Vol 31, Issue 1, p151
- ISSN
0954-6650
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jhc/fhy007