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Duveen
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by:
Behrman, S. N.
Lowry, Glenn (Introduction)
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Publisher:
Little Bookroom
Published: March 2003
ISBN: 1892145170
Format:Paperback
Pages:242
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Book Description
Book Description
Originally published as a serial in The New Yorker, this is the dramatic true-life tale of the man who single-handedly built some of the world's great art collections. "You can get all the pictures you want at fifty thousand dollars -
that's easy. But get pictures at a quarter of a million apiece - that wants some doing." Joseph Duveen's words were not idle chat, as this evocative chronicle of the legendary character shows. A virtuoso salesman who died in 1939, Duveen exploited the
simple idea that Europe had art and America had money. The story of his masterful maneuvering against competitors (including the czar of Russia) and his manipulation of American industrialists - first to buy, then to bequeath, major art collections -
makes for rousing reading.
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