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Breakfast at Sotheby's: An A-Z of the Art World

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Breakfast at Sotheby's: An A-Z of the Art World

When you stand in front of a work of art in a museum or exhibition, the first two questions you normally ask yourself are 1) Do I like it? and 2) Whoâ‚¬s it by?
When you stand in front of a work of art in an auction room or dealerâ‚¬s gallery, you ask these two questions followed by others: How much is it worth? How much will it be worth in five or ten yearsâ‚¬ time? And what will people think of me if they see it hanging on my wall?

Â Breakfast at Sothebyâ‚¬s is an alphabetical guide to how people reach answers to such questions, and how in the process art is given a financial value. Based on Philip Hookâ‚¬s thirty-five yearsâ‚¬ experience of the art market, Breakfast at Sothebyâ‚¬s explores the artist and his hinterland (including definitions for -isms, middle-brow artists, Gericault, and suicides), subject and style (from abstract art and banality through surrealism and war), â‚¬Å“wall-power,â‚¬Â provenance, and market weather.

Â Comic, revealing, piquant, splendid, and occasionally absurd, Breakfast at Sothebyâ‚¬s is a book of pleasure and intelligent observation, as engaged with art as it is with the world that surrounds it.
Country USA
Brand Overlook Hardcover
Manufacturer Abrams Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2014-10-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781468309669

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