The Ultimate Trophy: How the Impressionist Painting Conquered the World by Philip Hook

The Ultimate Trophy: How the Impressionist Painting Conquered the World

Philip Hook

223 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction art informative reflective medium-paced
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In 1892 Degas' painting In the Caf???? was sold for a mere 180 guineas at auction, with the public hissing as the hammer fell. Less than a century later another Impressionist work, Renoir's Moulin de la Galette, sold at Sotheby's for $78 million, ...

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