Sotheby's: Bidding for Class
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (919 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316644471 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 354 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Glamor and Scandal of a World-Class Auction House the glamorous, glitzy, and often scandalous story of Sotheby's --from its humble beginnings in 17The Glamor and Scandal of a World-Class Auction House paperlady the glamorous, glitzy, and often scandalous story of Sotheby's --from its humble beginnings in 1744, to 1996's Jacqueline Kennedy's auction, . to 1997's art-smuggling imbroglio, with several pages of photos & illustrations print ads . Not only is it a "back stage" story about Sotheby - but it also closely follows the development of it's hate/love relationship with it's only rival - Christies.. The Glamor and Scandal of a World-Class Auction House paperlady the glamorous, glitzy, and often scandalous story of Sotheby's --from its humble beginnings in 1744, to 1996's Jacqueline Kennedy's auction, . to 1997's art-smuggling imbroglio, with several pages of photos & illustrations print ads . Not only is it a "back stage" story about Sotheby - but it also closely follows the development of it's hate/love relationship with it's only rival - Christies.. , to 1996's Jacqueline Kennedy's auction, . to 1997's art-smuggling imbroglio, with several pages of photos & illustrations print ads . Not only is it a "back stage" story about Sotheby - but it also closely follows the development of it's hate/love relationship with it's only rival - Christies.. Spectacular Read!! Pink Plumeria Well written, well researched, well told, great pictures, phenomenal vocabulary! This book came to me at a time when I was searching for a read that was a bit more academic, and this was it! It was difficult to put down, which is not what I was expecting, considering that it is the history of a family owned company turned corporation. I picked it up on a whim, and I consider myself lucky! If only for vocabulary acquisition, I recomend that you read it! I cannot say enough wonderful things about it!. Some People Have Too Much Money Who would have thought that the upright, high class and very proper world of high class auctions was really a swamp of scams and cheats. I actually thought that the dust jacket with it's Kitty Kelly type tabloid write up was just a way to get the average reader to pick the book up - - who would have thought that the lead up was only the tip of the iceberg. This book had just a ton of super rich people getting scammed, cheated and fighting over the artwork that these auction houses are selling. I think everybody of normal means takes a guilty pleasure in wa
Piles of money, international power plays, cutthroat business tactics, unique personalities, and the politics of social class--that should be enough for a really juicy read, don't you think? But why stop there when you can also have smuggling, Swiss bank accounts, espionage, royal families, and mansions on the Riviera? Did anyone mention art? This riveting history of Sotheby's, the world's richest auction house, has that too, of course, but mainly as a lifestyle accessory. Of the highborn Peter Wilson, Sotheby's longtime chairman and a legend in every corner of the art world, for example, Lacey writes: "He would roll a carved ivory netsuke worth a few pounds between his fingers with the same delight with which he greeted an old master worth tens of thousands, for the secret of PCW's eye was his ability to be genuinely interested in almost anything." In Lacey's capable hands, the reader finds every facet of this story equally spellbinding. 'They are having orgies,' Cann
Lacey takes the reader through the unprecedented boom of the 1980s, when Van Gogh's "Irises" went for $53.9 million, and examines the catastrophic effects of an inflation still being felt today.. The Sotheby's-Christie's rivalry intensified in the early-1900s and they have been battling it out ever since over the likes of Cezanne, Picasso, Van Gogh and Monet. This volume explores the history of Sotheby's auction house, tracing its beginnings back to 1744. It was in the latter half of the 19th century, when economic instability forced the aristocrats to sell off many of their treasures, that Sotheby's began to lay the foundations of the modern art market