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Volume 2
Edited by
Lynn Catterson
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Cover illustration: A popular art and antique auction. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after
R. Doyle. Bird’s-eye views of modern society, no. VII. London (15 Waterloo Place): Smith, Elder & Co. Wellcome
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1 Introduction 1
Lynn Catterson
4 “A Public-Spirited Merchant”
Samuel P. Avery, Art Dealer, Advisor, Philanthropist 93
Leanne Zalewski
7 The Art Dealer and the Devil: Remarks on the Relationship of Elia Volpi
and Wilhelm von Bode 181
Patrizia Cappellini
vi contents
Introduction
Lynn Catterson
* I owe an immense debt to Stefano Casciu, Direttore del Polo Regionale dei Musei della
Toscana, Cristina Gnoni Mavarelli and Stefano Tasselli for their kindness and generosity with
regard to the material in the Archivio Storico Eredità Bardini in Florence. I am also grateful
to the Columbia University Libraries, the Frick Art Reference Library, the Morgan Library,
the New York Historical Society, and the Berlin Museum and Zentralarchiv for their incred-
ible assistance in so many areas. Likewise, this research would not have been possible with-
out support from the Frick Center for the History of Collecting, the American Philosophical
Society, CASVA, and the International Scholarship Programme at the Staatliche Museen
zu Berlin-Preußischer Kulturbesitz, and the Samuel H. Kress and Leon Levy Foundations.
Along the way of this project, I’ve found truly collaborative colleagues and many new friends,
among them the contributors to this volume. I must thank in particular Denise Budd, Paul
Tucker and Kerri Pfister for their help and thoughts throughout.
Figure 1.1 Plate depicting medals and plaquettes from Stefano Bardini’s auction (Christie’s,
London, May 27th, 1902), annotated with names of buyers; inserted post-sale into
photo album.
Reproduced with the kind permission of the Archivio Fotografico Bardini
(AFEB) della Soprintendente Polo Museale Toscano, Florence.
Italy and it is precisely after this publication that the government has
prohibited me from selling it abroad.1
1 Archivio Storico Eredità Bardini, Firenze, hereafter referred to as Florence, ASEB. Copialettere,
20 February 1896: “Florence le 20 février 1896 / Monsieur Quincy A. Shaw / Boston / Je viens
de recevoir votre amiable lettre du 6 courant et vous remercie pour l’intérêt bienveillant que
vous avez pour moi et ma famille. Les plis de ladite lettre j’ai levé votre cheque de Lit 667.25
pour soldi des frais faits pour votre compte. Le bas-relief marbre par Bellano est toujours
chez moi; mais je ne puis pas le vendre à un Musée étranger à cause que notre Gouvernement
m’a défendu de l’exporter hors d’Italie. Et cela m’est impossible parce que les Musées ex-
posant les objets en public il ne se passerait longtemps que la chose se saurai chez nous.
Par contre si je le vends à un amateur c’est différent. L’amateur peut le garder chez lui sans
l’exhiber au public – et si enfin il se décide à le publier il se peut très bien que le temps pour
la prescription soit passé.je vous prie de vouloir bien remarquer que ce bas-relief est histo-
rique et qu’il fut jadis levé d’une des rues de Venise. C’est l’unique œuvre de Belano que l’on
connaisse signée opus Bartolomeus Belani 1401. Il a été déjà publié en Italie et c’est justement
après cette publication que le gouvernement m’a apposé le veto de vente à l’étranger. Vous
vous souviendrez que le prix demande est de 30,000; le même prix fait à Bode et d’autres. Un
autre objet historique cité par Vasari – c’est le vitrail de fenêtre que vous avez vu dans ma
salle au tableau – et du quel je vous envoie la photographie. Encore un objet qu’on me défend
de vendre hors d’Italie. Je voudrais bien le vendre à un amateur si vous en auriez le placement
chez vous – c’est un objet qui serait bien in place dans votre collection in distinguée. Son prix
est aussi de 30,000.Mr. Bode va mieux et vient d’avoir un enfant. Sous l’attende de votre nou-
velle lettre, je vous prie de vouloir bien présenter mes respects a Madame Shaw et d’agréer
mes salutations bien sincères. / Très Dévoué / S. Bardini.” Very often, the American and the
Italian write to each other in French.
For the relief, see http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/virgin-and-child-with-angel-
and-saint-john-58903. With respect to the collection in Boston, see Marietta Cambareri.
“Italian Renaissance sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: the early years.” in
C.R. Marshall, ed., Sculpture and the Museum. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011, 95–114.
In 1889, Wilhelm von Bode published the terracotta version he had just acquired for
Berlin, noting that the marble version now in Boston was at the time in a private collection,
for which see, W. Bode, “Amlichte Berichte …,”Jahrbuch der Preußischen Kunstsammlungen,
Band 10, Berlin, 1889, Zeitschriftenband, LII. Print.
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See also Volker Krahn, Bartolomeo Bellano: Studien zur Paduaner Plastik des Quattrocento.
Berlin, Techn. Univ., Diss., 1986, 209ff.
2 For an analysis of the various debates played out in the press and in the academic circles, see
Federica Papi.
Introduction 3
3 Just as important, though admittedly difficult to work with, are the numerous lacunae –
archival material not present, not extant, whether by accident or design. The networks with-
in which Bardini functioned were epic in their complexity and as such, it is naïve to approach
the phenomenon of Bardini the dealer as a single individual, or in the context of a biography.
Despite the fact that the archive and its contents have occupied my full attention since 2010,
I can say that, without a marshalling of digital technologies and the inauguration of a robust
collaborative research project with pan-institutional participation, it remains seriously pre-
mature to capitulate a definitive account of the man and his business. In the interim, some
very lively and curious case studies are imminently forthcoming.
4 Catterson
next, and at times, within one transaction. The morphology of the supply side
of the art market was dynamic and quick to adapt strategies and roles in the
face of the burgeoning market. Thus, many artists, including successful ones,
also worked as agents and outright dealers. Likewise, dealers proffered exper-
tise and in doing so, they effected taste and market trends. On the other hand,
the so-called impartial experts often found it more lucrative to establish a pri-
vate fiduciary relationship with a dealer in addition to those with collectors –
Berenson and Duveen were not the first nor were they the only example of
this kind of business partnership. Museum agents would function as experts,
and to use Wilhelm von Bode (1845–1929) as but one example, they would also
advise collectors, deal art on the side, and quite often establish a beneficial
financial relationship with dealers.
From 1860, Europe was the stage for ever increasing pan-continental insti-
tutional competition to build world class collections. By 1870, the Americans
would begin to enter the fray, bringing with them vast sums of money and,
for the most part, uneducated eyes as far as the art was concerned. Just prior
to the turn of the century, and moving forward into the next, ever improving
methods of transportation – Transatlantic as well as proliferating European
railways – combined with technological advancements in the telegraph and
photography had an immediate effect on the rate at which the art market grew.
Already by the mid-century, the increasing commodification of art and dec-
orative arts necessitated a discernable shift in the organization and categori-
zation of the objects themselves as they were readied for sale.4 Classification
gradually changed from the more general, the more random, to the more spe-
cific and consequently hierarchical. This can be observed in the public sales at
auction as well as in the type of display enacted in the salesrooms of individual
dealers like Bardini. With respect to the auction houses and galleries, the trend
may be gleaned from a survey of auction catalogs over the course of the centu-
ry wherein collections and dealers of bric-a-brac and curiosities evolve into col-
lections and dealers of objects of fine and decorative arts.5 Thus, from around
1860, that is, at the beginning of Bardini’s career, a more complex taxonomy
evolves which parses inventory on the basis of value and more finely articulat-
ed categories which were reflected in the settings and systems of display. The
4 For a study of the art market in London during the first half of the Nineteenth Century, see
Mark Westgarth.
5 The Lugt’s Répertoire Online, together with the Arts Sales Catalogues Online (ASCO), pub-
lished by Brill (http://lugt.idcpublishers.info/) and available onsite at the Frick Art Reference
Library is an indispensable research tool for art market studies, and I thank Suz Massen,
Chief of Public Services (FARL) for calling it to my attention.
Introduction 5
6 Columbia University, Avery Library, Stanford White Letterpress Book, vol. 34, 280, 2 March
1906.
7 Florence, ASEB, Corrispondenza, 1928: 15 August, 1928, Letter from Barnard in Beotenberg,
Switzerland, to Ugo Bardini in Florence. In another (undated) letter of the same year, Barnard
takes the opportunity to inform Ugo that he has “[…] created the Gothic museum in America,
now the new part of the Metropolitan museum”, which, known today as The Cloisters, is itself
an uber-manifestation of the period room as the period museum.
8 Humphrey Ward, 10–15, esp. 12.
6 Catterson
number of skilled forgers and the scarcity of good old objects in the hands of
dealers, Ward introduces Bardini as “one of these great dealers – the greatest of
all – whom the readers of the Art Journal may care to visit in the writer’s com-
pany. This is Signor Stefano Bardini, whose palace – the word is strictly appro-
priate – is truly one of the sights of Florence, though naturally enough it is not
much visited except by students and serious buyers of old works of art.”9 Ward’s
motivation for publishing an article on Bardini’s collection is thinly veiled, for
in reality, he probably would have received a small percentage of any sales (or
some other benefit in kind) that directly resulted from his recommendation. A
similar tactic was used by Wilhelm von Bode when he printed and distributed
a small postcard in the autumn of 1906. Bardini had recently acquired the Torre
del Gallo and Villa la Gallina in the southern hills of Florence as a property in
which to expand his gallery showrooms. The photograph on the front of the
postcard scenically captures the Torre del Gallo and Villa la Gallina. In print
on the verso, Bode lauded Bardini’s recuperation of the ancient property and
extolled what would become in effect a new Florentine monument wholly in-
spired by classic Florentine art.10
Dealers like Bardini pandered to clients and associates who would publish
their works, knowing full well that these illustrated printed expertises held a
strong sway on museums and collectors during the course of deciding wheth-
er or not to purchase an object. Bardini’s lifelong association with Wilhelm
von Bode resulted in a large, and generally considered to be authoritative,
body of scholarship regarding Italian Renaissance sculpture; it was, and con-
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