Rogues and scholars : a history of the London art market, 1945-2000
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New York : Pegasus Books, 2025.
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9781639368235, 163936823X
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424 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Published
New York : Pegasus Books, 2025.
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Book
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202502
Language
English
ISBN
9781639368235, 163936823X

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"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 Čzannes, 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 inexorable rise, opening offices all over the world. A huge expansion of the market followed, accompanied by rocketing prices, colorful scandals, and legal dramas. London transformed itself from a fusty place of old master painting sales to a revitalized center of contemporary art, crowned by the opening of Tate Modern in 2000. The Tate Modern successfully united new (and mostly foreign) money in London with the art world, offering its patrons a ready-made sophisticated social milieu alongside dealers in contemporary art. In a vibrant and briskly-paced style, James Stourton tells the story of the London art market from the immediate postwar period to the turn of the millennium. While Sotheby's is the lynchpin of this story, Stourton populates his narrative with a glorious rogue's gallery of eccentric scholars, clever amateurs, brilliant emigřs, and stylish grandees with a flair for the deal"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Stourton, J. (2025). Rogues and scholars: a history of the London art market, 1945-2000 . Pegasus Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Stourton, James. 2025. Rogues and Scholars: A History of the London Art Market, 1945-2000. New York: Pegasus Books.

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Stourton, James. Rogues and Scholars: A History of the London Art Market, 1945-2000 New York: Pegasus Books, 2025.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Stourton, J. (2025). Rogues and scholars: a history of the london art market, 1945-2000. New York: Pegasus Books.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Stourton, James. Rogues and Scholars: A History of the London Art Market, 1945-2000 Pegasus Books, 2025.

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