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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older books in good condition. Pages in great condition. 2 volumes. A few age marks but pages and plates are bright. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Ernest Brummer was born in 1891 at Zombor in southern Hungary now a part of Yugoslavia. He was educated first at the Gymnasium then as a flutist at the Jesuit Academy of Music Budapest. After that he went to Paris to study art at the Sorbonne and Ecole du Louvre where he was a pupil of the great Salomon Reinach. When the First World War broke out he joined the French Army in which he served as officer and interpreter. At the end of his war-service which brought him a shrapnel wound and medals for gallantry he resumed the long trips he had begun to make before the war throughout Europe and Asia collecting art objects of all types and representing all periods. The fruits of these expeditions went to the gallery which Ernest ran with his elder brother Joseph (d. 1947) and younger brother Imre (d. 1928) in Paris and which was followed by one opened in New York. Over the years the Brummer Gallery became a renowned repository for jewellery sculpture bronzes vases carvings precious metalwork etc. from classical antiquity to medieval and renaissance periods. Such was the quality of the material such the Brummer connoisseurship that their visitors included the most distin- guished in the world of scholarship: Sir John Beazley visited the Faubourg St. Honor? in 1938; whilst in New York the highest echelons in the museum world maintained a close association with the gallery Gisela Richter Curator of the Greek and Roman Department at the Metropolitan and James Rorimer head of the Medieval Department and director of the Cloisters later of the Museum. Many art objects were obtained for the Metropolitan the Cloisters the Louvre and other leading museums in America and Europe. Some of the outstanding acquisitions made by these museums in the twenties thirties and forties owed their rediscovery to the extraordinarily sensitive ‘Brummer eye’. Ernest Brummer involved himself in the wider aspects of collecting: he would be absorbed by the problems of designing a stand or support for an object which should be functional without being intrusive; he was one of the first to realise the possibilities of using metal for this purpose. He was also deeply concerned with methods of cleaning and conservation and wrote many papers on the subject although he did not publish them. He did however publish as co-author with Adolphe Basler L’Art Pr?colongbien (Paris 1928) a work which resulted from research on the ethnographic collections at the Trocad?ro Museum. (OS)