About the book: 2013 / Bruce Chatwin is a British writer who worked at various times as an expert on impressionism at the Sotheby's auction house and as a consultant on on art and architecture in the Sunday Times. This edition includes his texts, one way or another related to art: a novel about the Meissen porcelain collector “Utz”, prefaces to albums, articles and essays from different years. In his writing, Chatwin, a sophisticated stylist and brilliant storyteller, describes the world of collectors and art connoisseurs as a special atmosphere, with a different lens and an intimate relationship between the work and its owner or observer. And he himself acts as a collector of interesting facts, interesting interlocutors and forgotten names.