Duveen [ Texto impreso] / S.N. Behrman ; introduction by Glenn Lowry.

By:

Behrman, S. N. ( Samuel Nathaniel), 1893-1973

Contributor(s):

Lowry, Glenn D

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Little Bookroom, 2003.Description: xiii, 232 p ; 21 cmISBN:

9781892145178

Subject(s):

Contents:

1. Itinerary ; 2. A Beginning in Delft ; 3. A Brisk Market in Immortality ; 4. B. B. ; 5. The Blue Boy and Two Lavinias ; 6. The Silent Men ; Catalogue of 500 Masterpieces sold by Duveen

Note: "The contents of this book appeared originally as a series of articles in the New Yorker" (contraportada) Summary: "A startling number of masterpieces now in American museums are there because of the shrewdness of one man, Joseph Duveen, art dealer to John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, Henry Clay Frick, and William Randolph Hearst. In a series of articles originally published in The New Yorker, playwright S.N. Behrman evokes the larger-than-life Duveen and reveals the wheeling and dealing, subterfuge, and spirited drama behind the sale of nearlybut not quitepriceless Rembrandts, Vermeers, Turners, and Bellinis" (cubierta posterior)

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Monografía prestable	Biblioteca FJM Sala general	Estudios Curatoriales	N 5247 .D8 B4 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1194816

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"The contents of this book appeared originally as a series of articles in the New Yorker" (contraportada)

1. Itinerary ; 2. A Beginning in Delft ; 3. A Brisk Market in Immortality ; 4. B. B. ; 5. The Blue Boy and Two Lavinias ; 6. The Silent Men ; Catalogue of 500 Masterpieces sold by Duveen

"A startling number of masterpieces now in American museums are there because of the shrewdness of one man, Joseph Duveen, art dealer to John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, Henry Clay Frick, and William Randolph Hearst. In a series of articles originally published in The New Yorker, playwright S.N. Behrman evokes the larger-than-life Duveen and reveals the wheeling and dealing, subterfuge, and spirited drama behind the sale of nearlybut not quitepriceless Rembrandts, Vermeers, Turners, and Bellinis" (cubierta posterior)

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