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The art of the steal : inside the Sotheby's-Christie's auction house scandal / Christopher Mason

By:

Mason, Christopher, 1960-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons , c2004.Description: ix, 406 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780399150937

Other title:

Sotheby's-Christie's auction house scandal
Christie's auction house scandal

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DDC classification:

364.168 MAS

Abstract: Mason, a socialite and social commentator, writes about the scandal from the inside to describe how the clubby auction houses grew into slick international corporations that cheated clients out of millions of dollars. The minutely detailed narrative is based on more than 2,000 interviews Mason conducted with some 300 sources as well as on Christie's and Sotheby's annual reports and thousands of pages of transcripts and other documents from the trial of Sotheby's Chairman Alfred Taubman. Mason's tome carries a three-page list of dramatis personae, four appendices charting commission charges for sellers, and a flattering cover blurb from Dominick Dunne, the dean of the chroniclers of high-society's dark side. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	364.168 MAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		026275

Includes index.

Mason, a socialite and social commentator, writes about the scandal from the inside to describe how the clubby auction houses grew into slick international corporations that cheated clients out of millions of dollars. The minutely detailed narrative is based on more than 2,000 interviews Mason conducted with some 300 sources as well as on Christie's and Sotheby's annual reports and thousands of pages of transcripts and other documents from the trial of Sotheby's Chairman Alfred Taubman. Mason's tome carries a three-page list of dramatis personae, four appendices charting commission charges for sellers, and a flattering cover blurb from Dominick Dunne, the dean of the chroniclers of high-society's dark side. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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