num_pages: 242
description: 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.
language: English
title: Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time
titlecomplete: Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time
characters: Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen
genres: Art, Biography, Art History, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 325
publisher: Little Bookroom