Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time - Softcover

Behrman, S.N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1892145170 ISBN 13: 9781892145178

Publisher: Little Bookroom, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

SAMUAL N. BEHRMAN (1893-1973), the son of a Jewish grocer, studied drama at Harvard and Columbia Universities. Before achieving success as a playwright, he worked at The New York Times, but was fired after it was discovered that the entertaining responses he was writing for the "Queries and Answers" section were to questions that he himself had submitted. He was acclaimed for the rarefied wit of plays such as "Wine of Choice," "The Second Man," and "End of Summer," and was also the author of a biography of Max Beerbohm. Upon his death, friends in show business remembered him as "the eighth of the seven lively arts."

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Bookroom
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1892145170
• ISBN 13: 9781892145178
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242