Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time

By (author): "Glenn Lowry, S.N. Behrman"
Publish Date: 1952
Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time
ISBN1892145170
ISBN139781892145178
AsinDuveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time
Original titleDuveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time
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 nearly—but not quite—priceless Rembrandts, Vermeers, Turners, and Bellinis.