In re/ over-valuing and under valuing. When the art scene exploded in the mid-1800s in Europe, a painting by Meissonnier might sell for as much as a Rembrandt. I just read this tidbit in Orland Figes' The Europeans about Pauline Viardot, her husband, and Turgenev.
In re/ over-valuing and under valuing. When the art scene exploded in the mid-1800s in Europe, a painting by Meissonnier might sell for as much as a Rembrandt. I just read this tidbit in Orland Figes' The Europeans about Pauline Viardot, her husband, and Turgenev.
stuff like that is fascinating. What lasts vs what people think will last
I was surprised reading a bio of Bulwer-Lytton that he vastly outsold Dickens in their lifetimes, and then after WWI Bulwer-Lytton was beyond passé.