Masterpiece
By: Thomas Hoving
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780671610999
Subjects: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Mafia; Painting; Art auctions; Fiction
Description: The dashing director of The National Gallery of Art is pitted against the ambitious, beautiful young woman who is acting director of the Met in a fight for ownership of a masterwork of the Spanish painter Diego Velasquez.