"Duveen: A Life in Art" by Meryle Secrest (University Of Chicago Press, 2005)
When the archives of Joseph Duveen—the dealer who introduced the tycoons of turn-of-the-century America to the spoils of the European art market—were donated to the Getty Research Institute, in 1998, biographer Meryle Secrest was the first in line to pore over the 584 boxes of shockingly uncensored material. The resulting book is a thrilling account of the deals, scandals and secrets that made Duveen the godfather of art commerce in the modern age.

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