“Henri Vever”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

By the early 20th century, Vever had amassed a collection of many thousands of fine ukiyo-e prints. His collection was so well regarded that the authors of some of the pioneering European scholarly works on ukiyo-e used Vever's collection for much their research on actual prints. Such authors include von Seidlitz, Migeon, and {{illm|Paul-André Lemoisne|fr|lt=Lemoisne}}, whose L'Estampe Japonaise used Vever's prints exclusively.^[2]

At the peak of World War I, however, Vever chose (or was forced) to dispose of the bulk of his collection, selling some 7996 prints to the Japanese industrial mogul Matsukata Kōjirō, who purchased them sight-unseen based on the collection's reputation. The prints would eventually find their way to the Tokyo National Museum, forming the bulk of that institution's ukiyo-e corpus.^[3] Many of Vever's prints also ended up in the national museums of France, donated earlier by Vever himself.^[2]

Although the thousands of pieces that made their way back to Japan via Matsukata included many of the masterpieces of the ukiyo-e movement, Vever had kept many of his best prints for himself and continued to collect after the First World War, acquiring pieces from former rivals Gonse, Haviland, Manzi, Isaac, and Javal as their collections went to the auction houses of Paris.^[4] He stopped collecting in the 1930s,^[5] and his "legendary" collection disappeared the following decade amid World War II and the German occupation of France, not to reappear until 1974 when Sotheby's announced that the collection would be auctioned.^[2] The sale took place in four parts, each in London:

Works from the first two parts were soon re-printed, together with 148 prints not sold at those auctions, in a limited-edition (2000-copy) three-volume catalog: Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection, by Jack Hillier.^[2]

References

1. ^¹{{cite web|title=Henri Vever A Finding Aid to His Papers|url=http://www.asia.si.edu/archives/finding_aids/vever.html|work=Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives|accessdate=4 August 2013}}
2. ^¹²³⁴⁵{{cite book|last=Hillier|first=Jack|title=Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection|year=1976|publisher=Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications Ltd.|location=Totowa, New Jersey 07512|isbn=0 85667 025 1}}
3. ^{{cite book|last=Michener|first=James A.|title=The Floating World|year=1954|publisher=Random House, Inc.|location=New York, New York|pages=244–5}}
4. ^{{cite book|last=Meech|first=Julia|title=The Matsukata Collection of Ukiyo-e Prints: Masterpieces from the Tokyo National Museum|year=1988|publisher=Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University|location=New Jersey|pages=18–23}}
5. ^{{cite news|last=Melikian|first=Souren|title=PARIS AUCTIONS : Opening a time capsule of Japanese woodcuts|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/31/style/31iht-melik_ed3__1.html|accessdate=4 August 2013|newspaper=New York Times|date=2002-08-31}}
6. ^{{cite book|title=Catalogue of Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings from the Henri Vever Collection |year=1973|publisher=Sotheby & Co.|location=London, England}}
7. ^{{cite book|title=Catalogue of Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings from the Henri Vever Collection |year=1975|publisher=Sotheby & Co.|location=London, England}}
8. ^{{cite book|title=Catalogue of Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings from the Henri Vever Collection |year=1977|publisher=Sotheby & Co.|location=London, England}}
9. ^{{cite book|title=Catalogue of Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings from the Henri Vever Collection |year=1997|publisher=Sotheby & Co.|location=London, England}}