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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 Abrams Press
Manufacturer Abrams Press
Binding Hardcover
Height 8
Length 5
Weight 1.00089866948
Width 1
ReleaseDate 2014-10-02
NumberOfItems 1

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