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Sothebys

Sothebys

Robert Lacey

This text explores the history of Sotheby's auction house, tracing its beginnings back to 1744, the economic instability in the late-19th century which forced aristocrats to sell their treasures, the intensification of the Sotheby's-Christie's rivalry, and the art boom in the 1980s.
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This volume explores the history of Sotheby's auction house, tracing its beginnings back to 1744. It was in the latter half of the 19th century, when economic instability forced the aristocrats to sell off many of their treasures, that Sotheby's began to lay the foundations of the modern art market. The Sotheby's-Christie's rivalry intensified in the early-1900s and they have been battling it out ever since over the likes of Cezanne, Picasso, Van Gogh and Monet. Lacey takes the reader through the unprecedented boom of the 1980s, when Van Gogh's "Irises" went for $53.9 million, and examines the catastrophic effects of an inflation still being felt today.

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Title - Sothebys

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Author - Robert Lacey

ISBN 13 - 9780316644471

Imprint - Little, Brown & Company

Publisher - Little, Brown & Company

Date Published - 07/05/1998

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Binding Type - Hardback

Dimensions - 162 x 242 x mm

Weight - 816 g

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