The Hare with Amber Eyes (33 page)

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Copyright © 2010 by Edmund de Waal
All rights reserved
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
[B]

2010025539

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