Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, 1945–2000 (Bloomsbury Publishing)

by James Stourton

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James Stourton tells the story of the London art market from the immediate postwar period to the turn of the millennium in engaging and fast-paced style, populating his richly entertaining narrative with a glorious rogues' gallery of clever amateurs, eccentric scholars, brilliant emigrs, cockney traders and grandees with a flair for the deal.

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James Stourton is deputy chairman of Sotheby's Europe.

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Art & Design, Nonfiction, Economics, History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
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700.90Arts & recreationArtsArts & RecreationHistorical, geographic, persons treatment of the arts
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