Artful Partners

Simpson, Colin

ISBN 10: 0026113309 / ISBN 13: 9780026113304

Published by Macmillan, 1986

About this Item

323p. Book is securely bound with unmarked interior and clean covers. Jacket in very good condition with moderate edge wear and scuffed rear panel.

Seller Inventory # 64341

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Artful Partners
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0026113309
• ISBN 13: 9780026113304
• Binding: Hardcover. 8vo
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • ART

About this title

Synopsis

Filled with anecdotes and bizarre characters, this book is the story of how the world's most successful art dealer and an eminent art critic formed a secret partnership to fleece and fool their multi-millionaire clients

Synopsis

This is an account of a secret partnership between a leading authority on Italian Renaissance painting, Bernard Berenson, and a successful and suspect art-dealer, Joseph Duveen. Berenson was a respected man whose pupils included Kenneth Clark. They were an unlikely pair but their partnership continued until shortly before Duveen's death. Their clients were American collectors and British aristocracy. The book traces each man's origins and their lives before they came together and describes many of the profitable "coups" in which they were involved. Finally it recounts the quarrels and intrigues which led to the breakdown of the partnership. A television series based on this book is planned for 1988. Colin Simpson was responsible for the articles which exposed the London antique dealers auction ring in 1964.