{"product_id":"duveen-9780226744155","title":"Duveen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTells about Joseph Duveen (1869-1939) and his humble beginnings running his father's business to knighthood and eventually a peerage. The eldest of eight sons of Jewish-Dutch immigrants, he inherited an uncanny ability to spot a hidden treasure from his father, proprietor of a prosperous antiques business.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By far the best account of Joseph Duveen's life in a biography that is rich in detail, scrupulously researched, and sympathetically written. [Secrest's] inquiries into early-twentieth-century collecting whet our appetite for a more general history of the art market in the first half of the twentieth century.\" - John Brewer, New York Review of Books \"Secrest paints an engrossing picture of the art-dealing world, fraught with intrigues, betrayals and lawsuits, to say nothing of fakes, forgeries, and misattributions.... An accomplished biography.\" - Publishers Weekly\"","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53733810766167,"sku":"9780226744155","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/duveen-9780226744155","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}