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| Old masters of the continental schools / West's Galleries, London. London: West's Galleries, [1939]. |
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| ND456 O44 1939 Rare Book Division Max Stern Collection |
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| On the cover of this exhibition and sales catalogue is: Summer 1939. The foreword is not signed. Advertising matter (1 leaf) for works bought and sold by West's Galleries is laid in. Max Stern had the Dutch art historian Cornelis van de Wetering, an associate of Karl Koetschau in Berlin, found West's Galleries for him with his sister Hedi Stern Selbiger in London in 1936 when he was preparing to leave Nazi Germany. He had not been able to put Wetering in charge of Galerie Julius Stern in Düsseldorf in his stead because the Nazis did not allow a gallery of that stature to be in foreign hands. The name West's is made up of the first two letters of their names. When Stern moved to London in December 1937 he joined the gallery. They sold mainly old masters (see also the three Dutch and Flemish catalogues) and closed in 1940 when, with the beginning of World War II, Stern was interned as an alien on the Isle of Wight and Wetering joined the Dutch forces.
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