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

Behrman, S. N.; Steinberg, Saul

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ISBN 10: 1892145170 ISBN 13: 9781892145178

Casa editrice: Little Bookroom, 2003

Riassunto

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 in The 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 nearly—but not quite—priceless Rembrandts, Vermeers, Turners, and Bellinis.

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‘Provides an index of the flow of art in the first half of the twentieth century’ --Times Literary Supplement

‘So lucid and candid as to engross to the point of chaining this little treasure to your wrist...compelling narrative' --Leeds Guide

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Book by Behrman SN

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• Editore: Little Bookroom
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1892145170
• ISBN 13: 9781892145178
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 232