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100 1 De Waal, Edmund.
245 14 The hare with amber eyes :|ba hidden inheritance|h[Hoopla
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250 Unabridged.
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511 0 Read by Michael Maloney.
520 The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and
respected as the Rothschilds, who "burned like a comet" in
19th-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of
World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their
vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory
carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox. The
renowned ceramicist Edmund de Waal became the fifth
generation to inherit this small and exquisite collection
of netsuke. Entranced by their beauty and mystery, he
determined to trace the story of his family through the
story of the collection. The netsuke-drunken monks, almost
-ripe plums, snarling tigers-were gathered by Charles
Ephrussi at the height of the Parisian rage for all things
Japanese. Charles had shunned the place set aside for him
in the family business to make a study of art, and of
beautiful living. An early supporter of the Impressionists,
he appears, oddly formal in a top hat, in Renoir's
Luncheon of the Boating Party. Marcel Proust studied
Charles closely enough to use him as a model for the
aesthete and lover Swann in Remembrance of Things Past.
Charles gave the carvings as a wedding gift to his cousin
Viktor in Vienna; his children were allowed to play with
one netsuke each while they watched their mother, the
Baroness Emmy, dress for ball after ball. Her older
daughter grew up to disdain fashionable society. Longing
to write, she struck up a correspondence with Rilke, who
encouraged her in her poetry. The Anschluss changed their
world beyond recognition. Ephrussi and his cosmopolitan
family were imprisoned or scattered, and Hitler's theorist
on the "Jewish question" appropriated their magnificent
palace on the Ringstrasse. A library of priceless books
and a collection of Old Master paintings were confiscated
by the Nazis. But the netsuke were smuggled away by a
loyal maid, Anna, and hidden in her straw mattress. Years
after the war, she would find a way to return them to the
family she'd served even in their exile. In The Hare with
Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal unfolds the story of a
remarkable family and a tumultuous century. Sweeping yet
intimate, it is a highly original meditation on art,
history, and family, as elegant and precise as the netsuke
themselves.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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600 30 Ephrussi family.
650 0 Jewish bankers|zEurope|vBiography.
650 0 Jewish businesspeople|zEurope|vBiography.
650 0 Art|xCollectors and collecting|zEurope|vBiography.
650 0 Netsukes|xPrivate collections|zEngland|zLondon.
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