S.N. Behrman's profile of art dealer Joseph Duveen — originally published as a series of New Yorker profiles and collected as a book — documenting Duveen's techniques for selling Old Master paintings to American Gilded Age industrialists.
Provides the most detailed account of how Duveen operated — the psychology of selling to the ultra-wealthy, the creation of rivalry between collectors, the relationship with authenticator Bernard Berenson — making it the canonical text on luxury salesmanship.
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