The dealer king.(Book Review)

Art in America | June 1, 2005| | Copyright

Duveen: A Life in Art, by Meryle Secrest, New York, Knopf, 2004; 517 pages, $35.

For about 30 years prior to World War II--a period, cultural historian Kenneth Clark noted, when "the world of art dealing was in an unusually depraved condition" (1)--Sir Joseph Duveen, subsequently Lord Duveen of Milbank, was the preeminent merchant of old masters. In a portrait by a long-forgotten society painter reproduced on the jacket of Meryle Secrest's new biography Duveen: A Life in Art, Sir Joseph, dressed in banker's gray, his hair brushed away from his temples, wearing a ...

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