Stimulating and entertaining, Sotheby’s brings to life the personalities and shrewd business sense operating behind the glitz and glamour of the world’s oldest and richest auction house. Reporting from within on famous sales of the recent past, and charting the impact of a succession of clever and colorful entrepreneurs who have known how to sniff out the deals of the moment, Robert Lacey brilliantly reveals how Sotheby’s responds to a much greater need than that of connoisseurs buying works of art—the bidding for class.
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'This is no on-your-knees, aren't they wonderful corporate biography. It's a well-researched, largely accurate, acute, sometimes very funny analysis of a company which steps from scandal and hot water into the sunlight of success every month of the year' Godfrey Barker, LITERARY REVIEW' 'Written by the same old pacy, racy Lacey familiar to us from his royal books ... his talent for winkling out piquant detail is at its best' Bevis Hillier, SPECATOR '[This is] no corporate biography byt a pacy, racy book on the auction house and its characters.' ANTIQUES TRADE GAZETTE 'This is about as readable an introduction to the guiles of modern auctioneering, including its sharper practices, as you are likely to find.' ART REVIEW 'Pacy and well-reseached.' COUNTRY LIFE
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Stimulating and entertaining, Sotheby’s brings to life the personalities and shrewd business sense operating behind the glitz and glamour of the world’s oldest and richest auction house. Reporting from within on famous sales of the recent past, and charting the impact of a succession of clever and colorful entrepreneurs, who have known how to read the winds of economic change to sniff out the deals of the moment, Robert Lacey brilliantly reveals how Sotheby’s responds to a much greater need than that of connoisseurs buying works of art: the bidding for class.
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Excellent book. Piles of facts, sharp analysis. One can learn more about art market from the book than from years of studies. Apart from it - pleasant reading.
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IT WAS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY England that, for the first time in human history, a nation took to industrial manufacturing and started to become seriously rich. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bidding for class, auction box, art boom, auction business, art auction house, art prices, picture department, private treaty, first auction, spring sales, private dealer, auction process, auction room, auction houses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peter Wilson, New York, New Bond Street, Alfred Taubman, Montague Barlow, Dede Brooks, Wellington Street, James Christie, Geoffrey Hobson, York Avenue, Samuel Baker, Michael Ainslie, Tom Hodge, Peregrine Pollen, Samuel Leigh Sotheby, West End, David Nash, Felix Warre, Gordon Brunton, Peter Spira, Graham Llewellyn, King Street, Old Masters, David Westmorland, Madison Avenue New!
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IT WAS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY England that, for the first time in human history, a nation took to industrial manufacturing and started to become seriously rich. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bidding for class, auction box, art boom, auction business, art auction house, art prices, picture department, private treaty, first auction, spring sales, private dealer, auction process, auction room, auction houses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peter Wilson, New York, New Bond Street, Alfred Taubman, Montague Barlow, Dede Brooks, Wellington Street, James Christie, Geoffrey Hobson, York Avenue, Samuel Baker, Michael Ainslie, Tom Hodge, Peregrine Pollen, Samuel Leigh Sotheby, West End, David Nash, Felix Warre, Gordon Brunton, Peter Spira, Graham Llewellyn, King Street, Old Masters, David Westmorland, Madison Avenue New!
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- The Elegant Auctioneers by Wesley Towner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sir Walter Ralegh (Phoenix Press) by Robert Lacey in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- God Bless Her!: Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother by Robert Lacey in Front Matter
- Venus and Adonis. by William Shakespeare on page 47
- The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History by David Lowenthal in Back Matter
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