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Rogues And Scholars A History Of The London Art World 19452000 James Stourton

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Rogues And Scholars A History Of The London Art World 19452000 James Stourton
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Publisher: Pegasus Books
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 31.03 MB
Author: James Stourton
Language: English
Year: 2025

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Rogues And Scholars A History Of The London Art World 19452000 James Stourton by James Stourton instant download after payment.

A colorful and fast-moving account of how postwar London became the global center of the art market—a story of Impressionist masterpieces, dodgy dealers, and ground-breaking financial transactions.
On October 15, 1958, Sotheby's of Bond Street staged an "event sale" of seven Impressionist paintings belonging to Erwin Goldschmidt: three Manets, two Cézannes, one Van Gogh, and a Renoir. Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, and Somerset Maugham were there as celebrity guests. The seven lots went for £781,000—at the time the highest price for a single sale. The event established London as the world center of the art market and Sotheby's as an international auction house. It began a shift in power from the dealers to the auctioneers and paved the way for Impressionist paintings to dominate the market for the next forty years.
Sotheby's had pulled off a massive coup by capturing the Impressionist market from Paris and New York—and now began its...

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