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Rogues and Scholars

Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, 1945–2000

Af: James Stourton
Kategori: History & military
Kategori nr.: 9210
Varenr.: 3245121
| Stregkode: 9781804541975
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A Times Best Art Book of the Year, 2024'A riot of a book' – Country Life's Books of the Year, 2024The modern art market was born on a single night. On 15 October 1958 Sotheby’s of Bond Street staged an ‘event sale’ of Impressionist paintings from the collection of an American banker, Erwin Goldschmidt: three Manets, two Cézannes, one Van Gogh and a Renoir. Movie stars and other celebrities attended in black tie and saw the seven lots go for £781,000 – at the time the highest price for a single art sale. Overnight, London became the world centre of the art market and Sotheby’s an international auction house. The event signalled a shift in power from dealers to auctioneers and pointed the way for Impressionist paintings to dominate the market for the next forty years. In this climate Sotheby’s and Christie’s became a great business duopoly – as aggressive, dominant and competitive in the field of art sales as Pepsi and Coca-Cola were in soft drinks. The resulting expansion of the market was accompanied by rocketing prices, colourful scandals and legal dramas. Over the decades, London transformed itself from a place of old master sales to a revitalised centre of contemporary art, a process crowned by the opening of Tate Modern in 2000. James Stourton tells the story of the London art market from the immediate postwar period to the turn of the millennium in engaging and fast-paced style, populating his richly entertaining narrative with a glorious rogues’ gallery of clever amateurs, eccentric scholars, brilliant emigrés, cockney traders and grandees with a flair for the deal.

Detaljer

  • EAN
    9781804541975
  • Vægt
    694 g
  • Disponent
    Direkte titel
  • Forfatter
    James Stourton
  • Forlag
    Apollo
  • ISBN
    9781804541975
  • Sprog
    Engelsk
  • Sideantal
    432
  • Udgivelsesdato
  • Format
    HARDBACK
  • Themakode
    NHD, HBJD1, NH, RGCP, HBLW, RGCP
  • Kategori
    History & military
  • Kategori nr
    9210
  • Lev. varenr.
    1501
  • Højde/Dybde (mm)
    160 mm
  • Bredde (mm)
    240 mm
  • Længde (mm)
    40 mm