Bachelors of Art: Edward Perry Warren and the Lewes House Brotherhood

Sox, David

ISBN 10: 1872180116 / ISBN 13: 9781872180113

Published by Fourth Estate, London, 1991

About this Item

xi, 289p., introduction, epilogue, notes and references, index, illustrations, very good first edition bound in boards and unclipped dj. Warren 'collected art and young men,' begins the dj narrative.

Seller Inventory # 36667

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bachelors of Art: Edward Perry Warren and the Lewes House Brotherhood
• Publisher: Fourth Estate, London
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1872180116
• ISBN 13: 9781872180113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography
  • Gay Studies
  • Art
  • Nineteenth century

About this title

Synopsis

This is the story of how Edward Perry Warren cornered the world art market from the early years of this century onwards. His competitor at the British Museum declared in despair "there is nothing to be got nowadays, since Warren is always on the spot first". Warren almost single-handedly established the collections of the Boston Museum and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Apart from some of the finest Greek and Roman pieces in existence, Warren owned Rodin's "The Kiss". As well as art, Warren collected young men, establishing in Lewes a brotherhood devoted to the revival of classical ideals. This world was to impinge on the worlds of Oscar Wilde, Augustus John, Matisse, Gertrude Stein, and the wealthy benefactress, Isabella Stewart Gardner, amongst others. More shocking than his recreation of a society based on "Greek love" is Warren's blatant dealings with some of the most contrived art forgeries of the century.