Title: I bought Andy Warhol
Description: Introduction -- Vincent Fremont -- Dollar signs -- Triple all the prices! -- Sure hope you have insurance -- King Kong of galleries -- Tuna fish disaster -- Belgian shoes -- Eccentric collection -- $500 Marilyn 1t gold -- Ivan Karp -- Survival of the fittest -- Dividing the map -- Liquidity -- Would someone give me a million? -- How to buy art -- Passed -- Tree collector -- Art market jitters -- Private dealer -- Benjamins -- Green -- Don't do me any favors -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Sources -- Index.

An art dealer shares the story of his quest to own a painting by pop artist Andy Warhol--a process that began in 1987 and endured for 12 years. This behind-the-scenes look the world of art galleries, auction houses, and collectors reveals humor, hypocrisy, gossip, greed, manipulation, and money.
Subjects: Art, Biographies, Kunsthandel, Collectionneurs et collections, Art dealers, Biography, Marchands d'œuvres d'art, Kunstmarkt, Collectors and collecting, Warhol, andy, 1928-1987, Art, collectors and collecting
Places: United States
People: Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Richard Polsky