Art Held Hostage: The Battle over the Barnes Collection

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“Quirky, engaging and meticulously researched.... This is a page-turner that reads like a legal thriller, replete with colorful characters and outsized personalities.” - Baltimore Sun  This is the story of how a fabled art foundation—the greatest collection of impressionist and postimpressionist art in America, including 69 Cézannes, 60 Matisses, and 44 Picassos, among many priceless others—came to be, and how more than a decade of legal squabbling brought it to the brink of collapse and to a move that many…