Breakfast at Sotheby's
Subtitle: an A-Z of the art world
By: Philip Hook
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781468309669
Subjects: Prices; Art; Economic aspects
Description: An experienced international art dealer describes how paintings and other works of art are each given a financial value, based on the artist, their movement or "-isms", what their life has been like, previous works, style, subject, "wall power" and provenance--Publisher's description.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain by Penguin Books 2013."
Table of contents: title: The Artist and his hinterland; title: Subject and style; title: Wall-power; title: Provenance; title: Market weather.