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On 15 October 1958 Sotheby’s of Bond Street staged an ‘event sale’ of Impressionist paintings: three Manets, two Cézannes, one Van Gogh and a Renoir.
Overnight, London became the world centre of the art market, shifting power from dealers to auctioneers – with Sotheby’s and Christie’s becoming a great business duopoly at its heart. James Stourton tells the story of the London art market from the immediate postwar period to the turn of the millennium, a glorious rogues’ gallery of clever amateurs, eccentric scholars and grandees with a flair for the deal.
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