Philip Hook joined Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Department in 1994. Currently a board member and senior director of Impressionist & Modern art in London, he is the author of Popular Nineteenth Century Paintings, Breakfast at Sotheby's, The Ultimate Trophy, and five successful novels set in the art world.
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Here for the first time is the history of art dealers, those extraordinary men and women who, over centuries (and almost entirely out of the public eye), built their profession on a singular skill: identifying the intangible but infinitely desirable quali... SEE MORE