From Manet to Manhattan: Rise of the Modern Art Market

by PeterWatson (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $8.65

  This study begins with the dramatic immediacy of a blockbuster novel as the authur looks, behind-the-scenes, at the auction where Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr Gachet was sold for $82.5 million. The author then turns back the clock to the rise of the modern art market - from a key Manet exhibition in 1882 through three critical eras (1882-1929, 1930-1956, 1957-1992). The book is full of anecdotes about the entrepreneurs, the rascals, the artists and collectors.

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  Paperback
  1993

  $26.19

  Concentrating on paintings as well as books and oriental art, this is a panorama of the art market during the past century, covering collectors, dealers, auction houses and sales. It portrays the rise of the auction houses - Sotheby's and Christie's - and reviews controversial transactions and spectacular auctions in which such works as Picasso's Au Lapin Agile and Van Gogh's Irises and Portrait of Dr Gachet changed hands and broke records. The narrative is underpinned with financial facts and a discussion of art-price trends.