This is the first book to investigate the modern London art market, establishing the central importance of London for the development of the modern retail marke

This book gives a comprehensive account of the history and underlying economics of the modern art market in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.

The 19th century in France witnessed the emergence of the structures of the modern art market that remain until this day. This book examines the relationship be

The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world -- for contemporary art -- is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nos

A behind-the-scenes look at a century of high art and high-stakes commerce, fluently narrated and spiced with backstage gossip. This captivating history brings