Duveen : The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time

English

ISBN: 1892145170

EAN: 9781892145178

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Business/Antiques & Collectibles / Art/

Publisher: Little Bookroom

Release Date: 03/01/2003

Synopsis: A startling number of masterpieces now in American museums are there because of the shrewdness of one man, Joseph Duveen, art dealer to John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, Henry Clay Frick, and William Randolph Hearst. In a series of articles originally published inThe New Yorker, playwright S.N. Behrman evokes the larger-than-life Duveen and reveals the wheeling and dealing, subterfuge, and spirited drama behind the sale of nearlybut not quitepriceless Rembrandts, Vermeers, Turners, and Bellinis.

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Duveen : The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time

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Format: Paperback

Height: 0.65 inches

Width: 5.0 inches

Length: 8.05 inches

Weight: 8.82 oz

Pages: 242