Download or read book Secrets of an Art Dealer written by James Henry Duveen and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This antiquarian book contains a fascinating account of the author's extensive experiences as an art dealer. Full of interesting anecdotes, humorous stories, and useful insights into the world of art dealing, this volume will be of considerable value to those with an interest in dealing art, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. The chapters of this book include: The Duveen Brothers, Remarking a Reliquary for £30000, The Prince who Lost his Tapestries, The Tragedy of the Jabach Vases, The Fatal Plate of Bernard Palissy, The Titled Kleptomaniac, The Maddest Collector I Have Ever Known, The Blackmailing of an Expert, and more. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Download or read book Secrets of an Art Dealer written by James Henry Duveen and published by . This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ART DEALtR JAMES HENRY DUVEEN New York E. P. DUTTON CO., INC. To THAT BEING WHICH OCCURS ONLY ONCE IN LIFE A MOTHER CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. REMAKING A RELIQUARY FOR 30,000, 9 II. THE PRINCE WHO LOST HIS TAPESTRIES . 28 III. THE TRAGEDY OF THE JABAGH VASES . 45 IV. THE FATAL PLATE OF BERNARD PALISSY . 64 V. THE TITLED KLEPTOMANIAC . . 77 VI. THE MADDEST COLLECTOR I HAVE EVER KNOWN ...... 88 VII. THE BLACKMAILING OF AN EXPERT, . 102 VIII. How PIERPONT MORGAN BOUGHT MIS TAKES, . . . .118 IX. How A V. C. EARNED A ROYAL SNUFFBOX 134 X. A LOVE-INTRIGUE THAT RUINED AN ART DEALER . . . . . .146 XL How A TWENTY MILLION WIDOW LOST ME 2 7,000 . . . .160 XII. THE SECRET OF NAPOLEON IIs CASKET . 172 XIII. THE DRESDEN PORCELAIN CASE . 184 XIV. THE ART DEALER WHO ESCAPED PENAL SERVITUDE . ., . .196 XV. WHEN CONNOISSEURS Go WRONG . . 208 XVI. How I LOST FIVE 2o, loo VASES . . 224 XVII. THE TRAGEDY OF VAN OLDENBARNE VELDT 238 XVIII. DOUBLE CROSSED BY A FRIEND . .251 XIX. THE CURSE OF THE MALEVOLENT GODS 260 XX. SAVED BY THE CAMORRA . . . 272 ILLUSTRATIONS FACE PAGE GOTHIC TAPESTRY THE CREDO TOURNAI ... 36 THE HEESWIJK CASTLE SET OF AZURE CHINESE VASES WITH THREE COVERS . . . . . . 37 A BERNARD PALISSY DISH ...... 68 A SNUFF Box 69 DRESDEN PORCELAIN SLEIGH GROUP .... 92 FRAXJ HERMINA FEIST ...... 93 GOTHIC SUIT OF ARMOUR . . . . . 108 THE FAMOUS GUZMAN CROSS . . . . .109 THE SNUFF Box OF FREDERICK THE GREAT . . 138 CHEVALIER JACOB VAN Esso THE RIDDER, . 139 THE Louis XVI WRITING CABINET . . . .166 NAPOLEON II KING OF ROME . . . . .167 EXECUTION OF MAXIMILIAN OF AUSTRIA, . .180 THE FREEMASON GROUP OF DRESDEN PORCELAIN . 181 THE COUNTESS COSEL, DRESDEN CRINOLINE FIGURE . 198 FIVE CHINESE PORCELAIN FAMILLEROSE VASES . 199 A Louis XV FAN ....... 212 STUART HIGH-BACK CHAIR . . . . .213 FAMILLE NOIRE VASE 230 JONKHEER VAN OLDENBARNEVELDTs HOUSE IN THE NoORD ElNDE AT THE HAGUE . . . . .231 OLD DELFT POTTERY BY ALBERT DE KEYSER . . 246 CLARET WORCESTER PLATE 247 THE MALEVOLENT GODS ..... 262 WORCESTER DISH 263 vn SECRETS OF AN ART DEALER SECRETS OF AN ART DEALER CHAPTER I REMAKING A RELIQUARY FOR 30,000 THE Combes law which, at a stroke, converted all the ecclesiastical treasures of France into State property, was one of those upheavals which, like the War, brought objects into the art markets of the world which had long been thought quite safe from any chance of dispersal. Thirty odd years ago no one dreamed that such wonderful goldsmiths work, pictures and other treasures, would ever be freed from the dead hand, and the result was startling. The Loi Combes taught me that even the Church would steal its own property rather than allow it to fall into the hands of the State despoilers. Priests, devout citizens, not quite so devout or so respectable ladies afid a host of hangers-on intrigued and conspired one against the other, linked only by the common trait of feverish greed. As I was motoring with an artist friend on the Continent I happened to be amongst the first to be caught up into this maelstrom I say motoring, for although we were aiming for the Riviera we had only got one third of the way in ten days We could have walked it faster, but those were the days when io SECRETS OF AN ART DEALER tyres were only guaranteed for about 500 miles and the motorist spent more time under his car than in it. Near Auxerre Sydney Watson, my companion, sat down on a roadside bank and hitched up hiselegant trousers. He paid no attention at all to a small crowd of loafers and children who goggled alternately at him and me. My dear Duveen, he exclaimed, the more I see of motor cars the more I congratulate myself I know nothing about them Especially in this tropical heat. Kneeling in the dust with the sweat trickling down my face, and wrestling with a burst tyre, I only just avoided losing my temper, 1 must have looked a Harry Tate figure, clad in I regret to say a suit of dark purple leather...

Download or read book Caveat Emptor written by Ken Perenyi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that the greatest art forger in the world is the one who has never been caught. Caveat Emptor reveals the astonishing story of America’s most accomplished art forger. Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing quality led federal agents to art dealers, renowned experts, and the major auction houses, the investigation inexplicably ended, despite an abundance of evidence collected. The case was closed and the FBI file was marked “exempt from public disclosure.” Now that the statute of limitations on these crimes has expired and the case appears hermetically sealed shut by the FBI, this book, Caveat Emptor, is Ken Perenyi’s confession. It is the story, in detail, of how he pulled it all off. Glamorous stories of art-world scandal have always captured the public imagination. However, not since Clifford Irving’s 1969 bestselling Fake has there been a story at all like this one. Caveat Emptor is unique in that it is the first and only book by and about America’s first and only great art forger. And unlike other forgers, Perenyi produced no paper trail, no fake provenance whatsoever; he let the paintings speak for themselves. And that they did, routinely mesmerizing the experts in mere seconds. In the tradition of Frank Abagnale’s Catch Me If You Can, and certain to be a bombshell for the major international auction houses and galleries, here is the story of America’s greatest art forger.

Download or read book Art Dealer s Field Guide written by Ron Davis and published by Capital Letters Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davis explains how to find valuable paintings, develop a stable of pickers and dealers, form an art investment club, raise money to buy paintings, and a number of other topics of interest to art collectors.

Download or read book Tales from the Art Crypt written by Richard L. Feigen and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feigen, an art collector and dealer, writes from fifty years experience in the art world.

Download or read book How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery Second Edition written by Edward Winkleman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A comprehensive guide.” —Artspace. “Whether you are new to the business or a seasoned gallerist, it is always wise to remember the essentials.” —Leigh Conner, director, Conner Contemporary Art Aspiring and new art gallery owners can find everything they need to plan and operate a successful art gallery with How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery. This new edition has been updated to mark the changes in market and technology over the past decade. Edward Winkleman and Patton Hindle draw on their years of experience to explain step by step how to start your new venture. From finding the ideal locale and renovating the space to writing business plans and securing start-up capital, this helpful guide has it all. Chapters detail how to: Manage cash flow Grow your new business Hire and manage staff Attract and retain artists and clients Represent your artists Promote your gallery and artists online Select the right art fair And more How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery, Second Edition, also includes sample forms, helpful tips from veteran collectors and dealers, a large section on art fairs, and a directory of art dealer associations.

Download or read book The Art Collector s Daughter A Stylish Historical Thriller written by Derville Murphy and published by Poolbeg Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An impressive debut, expertly researched and compelling narrated' - Patricia O'Reilly (The First Rose of Tralee)Love, art, and obsession, set between Nazi occupied Paris and rural Ireland. As the Germans advance on Paris in 1940, a young Jewish girl, Sylvie Vasseur, is sent by her father to rural Ireland to live with the Courtney family. He also sends his valuable art collection - including a portrait of Sylvie by the renowned Mateus, Girl on a Swing. Sylvia is seduced by the narcissistic elder son Nicholas Courtney when she is eighteen, but he abandons her when he discovers she is pregnant. To avoid the inevitable social stigma, Sylvie marries his brother Peter. In Dublin, she becomes involved in the art scene, achieving critical acclaim as a painter. But, trapped in a loveless marriage, she continues to be obsessed with Nicholas. Until, unexpectedly, secrets from her father's past emerge, leading her to question everything she once believed. Shortly after, she is found drowned on a Wexford beach. Seventeen years later, Claire Howard, struggling art historian, is hired by the Courtney family to record Sylvie's lifeworks. Fascinated by the artist and working with Sylvie's son Sam, Claire travels between Dublin and Paris, eventually unravelling a labyrinth of deceit and lies that threaten to endanger her life.

Download or read book The Business of Fine Art Photography written by Thomas Werner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide for aspiring and exhibiting photographers alike combines practice and concept to provide a roadmap to navigating, and succeeding in, the fine art photography marketplace locally, domestically, and internationally. Join former New York gallery owner, international curator, and fine art photographer Thomas Werner as he shares his experiences and insights from leading curators, gallerists, collectors, auctioneers, exhibiting photographic artists, and more. Learn how to identify realistic goals, maximize results, work with galleries and museums, write grants, develop strong nuanced imagery, and build a professional practice in a continually evolving field. Featuring dozens of photographs from international practitioners, and a robust set of resources, this book will ensure you have the tools to give you the opportunity for success in any marketplace. Whether you are a student, aspiring photographic or video artist, or a photographer changing careers, The Business of Fine Art Photography is your guide to starting and growing your own practice.

Download or read book Art Smart written by Alan D. Bryce and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Smart's advice will allow you to venture into the often-intimidating world of art with confidence and make intelligent purchases for pleasure and profit.

Download or read book Eye of the Sixties written by Judith E. Stein and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1959, Richard Bellamy was a witty, poetry-loving beatnik on the fringe of the New York art world who was drawn to artists impatient for change. By 1965, he was representing Mark di Suvero, was the first to show Andy Warhol’s pop art, and pioneered the practice of “off-site” exhibitions and introduced the new genre of installation art. As a dealer, he helped discover and champion many of the innovative successors to the abstract expressionists, including Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Walter De Maria, and many others. The founder and director of the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty-Seventh Street, Bellamy thrived on the energy of the sixties. With the covert support of America’s first celebrity art collectors, Robert and Ethel Scull, Bellamy gained his footing just as pop art, minimalism, and conceptual art were taking hold and the art world was becoming a playground for millionaires. Yet as an eccentric impresario dogged by alcohol and uninterested in profits or posterity, Bellamy rarely did more than show the work he loved. As fellow dealers such as Leo Castelli and Sidney Janis capitalized on the stars he helped find, Bellamy slowly slid into obscurity, becoming the quiet man in oversize glasses in the corner of the room, a knowing and mischievous smile on his face. Born to an American father and a Chinese mother in a Cincinnati suburb, Bellamy moved to New York in his twenties and made a life for himself between the Beat orbits of Provincetown and white-glove events like the Guggenheim’s opening gala. No matter the scene, he was always considered “one of us,” partying with Norman Mailer, befriending Diane Arbus and Yoko Ono, and hosting or performing in historic Happenings. From his early days at the Hansa Gallery to his time at the Green to his later life as a private dealer, Bellamy had his finger on the pulse of the culture. Based on decades of research and on hundreds of interviews with Bellamy’s artists, friends, colleagues, and lovers, Judith E. Stein’s Eye of the Sixties rescues the legacy of the elusive art dealer and tells the story of a counterculture that became the mainstream. A tale of money, taste, loyalty, and luck, Richard Bellamy’s life is a remarkable window into the art of the twentieth century and the making of a generation’s aesthetic. -- "Bellamy had an understanding of art and a very fine sense of discovery. There was nobody like him, I think. I certainly consider myself his pupil." --Leo Castelli

Download or read book Duveen written by Samuel Nathaniel Behrman and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as a serial in "The New Yorker, " this dramatic true-life story of Joseph Duveen--called "the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time"--chronicles how he single-handedly built some of the world's great art collections.

Download or read book Duveen written by Meryle Secrest and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has admired Gainsborough's Blue Boy of the Huntington Collection in California, or Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York owes much of his or her pleasure to art dealer Joseph Duveen (1869–1939). Regarded as the most influential—or, in some circles, notorious—dealer of the twentieth century, Duveen established himself selling the European masterpieces of Titian, Botticelli, Giotto, and Vermeer to newly and lavishly wealthy American businessmen—J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Mellon, to name just a few. It is no exaggeration to say that Duveen was the driving force behind every important private art collection in the United States. The first major biography of Duveen in more than fifty years and the first to make use of his enormous archive—only recently opened to the public—Meryle Secrest's Duveen traces the rapid ascent of the tirelessly enterprising dealer, from his humble beginnings running his father's business to knighthood and eventually apeerage. The eldest of eight sons of Jewish-Dutch immigrants, Duveen inherited an uncanny ability to spot a hidden treasure from his father, proprietor of a prosperous antiques business. After his father's death, Duveen moved the company into the riskier but lucrative market of paintings and quickly became one of the world's leading art dealers. The key to Duveen's success was his simple observation that while Europe had the art, America had the money; Duveen made his fortune by buying art from declining European aristocrats and selling them to the "squillionaires" in the United States. "By far the best account of Joseph Duveen's life in a biography that is rich in detail, scrupulously researched, and sympathetically written. [Secrest's] inquiries into early-twentieth-century collecting whet our appetite for a more general history of the art market in the first half of the twentieth century."—John Brewer, New York Review of Books

Download or read book Secrets of the Art World written by LItsa Spanos and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Litsa Spanos knows a thing or a thousand about making it in the art world. She's been a successful gallery owner for twenty-five years and has sold millions of dollars in original art and watched unknown artists, grow, flourish, and succeed. She has literally seen it all. And then some. And she has some insider secrets to share. (Okay, more like lots of them.) She believes that every artist should have the same opportunity to succeed and she wants to help as many artists as she can, while she can. So she put together an inspiring and informative book that will help the emerging artist, the mid-career artist, and the thriving or successful artist in equal measure. In this book you'll find everything you need to help you succeed. You'll also hear from other artists, gallery owners, tradeshow executives, and many more on what they think is the key to their success.

Download or read book The Order of Odd Fish written by James Kennedy and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JO LAROUCHE HAS lived her 13 years in the California desert with her Aunt Lily, ever since she was dropped on Lily’s doorstep with this note: This is Jo. Please take care of her. But beware. This is a dangerous baby. At Lily’s annual Christmas costume party, a variety of strange events take place that lead Jo and Lily out of California forever—and into the mysterious, strange, fantastical world of Eldritch City. There, Jo learns the scandalous truth about who she is, and she and Lily join the Order of Odd-Fish, a collection of knights who research useless information. Glamorous cockroach butlers, pointless quests, obsolete weapons, and bizarre festivals fill their days, but two villains are controlling their fate. Jo is inching closer and closer to the day when her destiny is fulfilled, and no one in Eldritch City will ever be the same.

Download or read book Breakfast at Sotheby s written by Philip Hook and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A witty journey through the wonderfully tumultuous world of art dealers and markets—organized in the style of a dictionary, complete with a glossary.” —Interview Two questions are key to experiencing a work of art in a museum or exhibition: 1.) Do I like it? 2.) Who’s it by? You need quite a few more questions if you’re in an auction room or dealer’s gallery, however. You’ll find yourself asking, How much is it worth? How much will it be worth in five or ten years? And finally, what will people think of me if they see it hanging on my wall? Breakfast at Sotheby’s is not only a guide to finding the answers to such questions, but also a glimpse into the rarely discussed financial side of the art world. Based on author Philip Hook’s thirty-five years of experience in the art market, the book explores various shades of artist (including -isms, Gericault, and suicides), subject and style (from abstract art and banality through surrealism and war), “wall-power,” provenance, and market weather. Comic, revealing, piquant, splendid, and occasionally absurd, Breakfast at Sotheby’s is a book of pleasure and intelligent observation, as engaged with art as it is with the world that surrounds it. “A breezy, whimsical and often wry compendium, chock-full of hard-won wisdom about what makes someone spend millions of dollars to buy an artwork at auction.” —The New York Times “A winner. Readers will learn more about the modern art market in this simple book than in any college course.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review

Download or read book Management of Art Galleries written by Magnus Resch and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art world is tough, the rules are a mystery, and only the lucky ew make money' - so how can galleries succeed? What makes a commercial art gallery successful? How do galleries get their marketing right? Which potential customer group is the most attractive? How best should galleries approach new markets while still serving their existing audiences? Based on the results of an anonymous survey sent to 8,000 art dealers in the US, UK, and Germany, Magnus Resch?s insightful examination of the business of selling art is a compelling read that is both aspirational and practical in its approach.

Download or read book How to be an Artist written by S. Natalie Abadzis and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fun-filled art activity book that will encourage kids to express themselves while teaching them about key artistic styles and a selection of pioneering artists from history"--