The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
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I could not have written this book without the sustaining generosity of my wife Sue Chandler. It is for our children Ben, Matthew and Anna.
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Copyright © 2010 by Edmund de Waal
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Originally published in 2010 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain,
as The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint passages from In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D. J. Enright, copyright © 1981 by Chatto & Windus and Random House, Inc. Revisions to the translation copyright © 1992 by D. J. Enright. Used by permission of Modern Library, a division of Random House, Inc., and by permission of the Random House Group, Ltd.
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following images: Le pont de l’Europe by Gustave Caillebotte, © Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva; Une botte d’aspèrges by Édouard Manet, © Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Cologne; Schottentor, Vienna, 1885, © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek; Palais Ephrussi frontal view, plan from the Allgemeine Bauzeitung, © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek; Vienna Anschluss, 1938, © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
De Waal, Edmund.
The hare with amber eyes: a family’s century of art and loss / Edmund de Waal.—1st American ed.
p. cm.
“Originally published in 2010 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain, as
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance.”
ISBN: 978-0-374-10597-6
1. Ephrussi family. 2. Jewish bankers—Europe—Biography. 3. Jewish businesspeople—Europe—Biography. 4. Art—Collectors and collecting—Europe—Biography. 5. Netsukes—Private collections—England—London. 6. De Waal, Edmund—Travel—Europe. I. Title.
HG1552.E64D49 2010
909'.0492400922—dc22
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