Duveen / Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, illustrated by Saul Steinberg.

Main entry:

Behrman, S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel), 1893-1973.

Title & Author:

Duveen / Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, illustrated by Saul Steinberg.

Publication:

New York, Random House [1952]

Description:

302 pages illustrations 22 cm

Notes:
Itinerary -- Beginning in Delft -- Brisk market in immortality -- B.B. -- The Blue Boy and two Lavinias -- Silent men.

Summary:

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.

Subject:

Duveen, Joseph Duveen, Baron, 1869-1939.
Duveen, Joseph 1869-1939
Art Collectors and collecting.
Art Collectionneurs et collections.
Biografie

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies

Added entries:

Steinberg, Saul, illustrator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 100589
Call No.: ID N8386.D82B4; ID:94-B1241
Status: Available

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