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  • Warhol After Warhol

  • Power and Money in the Modern Art World
  • By: Richard Dorment
  • Narrated by: Peter Noble
  • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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By: Richard Dorment
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Summary

Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process.

Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003 art critic Richard Dorment answered a telephone call from a stranger. The caller was Joe Simon, an American film producer and art collector. He was ringing at the suggestion of David Hockney, his neighbour in Malibu. A committee of experts called the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board had declared the two Warhols in his collection to be fake. He wanted to know why and thought Dorment could help.

This call would mark the beginning of an extraordinary story that would play out over the next ten years and would involve a cast of characters straight out of fiction. From rock icons and film stars; art dealers and art forgers; to a murdered Russian oligarch and a lawyer for the mob; from courtrooms to auction houses: all took part in a bitter struggle to prove the authenticity of a series of paintings by the most famous American artist of the twentieth century.

Part detective story, part art history, part memoir, part courtroom drama, Warhol After Warhol is a spellbinding account of the dark connection between money, power and art.
©2023 Richard Dorment (P)2023 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
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So good

Epic story of the corruption happening in the art world and the people in in and a good lesson for artists, collectors, dealers and museums to take note of, I wonder how many more injustices may have been possible. Should be a film. Joe also is the hero in this.

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