All That Glitters - A Story of Friendship, Fraud Fine Art

As heard on BBC Radio 4 ''One of the hottest memoirs of 2024'' Sunday Times Style '' A n art world Great Gatsby , deliciously withering and dishy.'' Patrick Radden Keefe ''Explosive ... the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history'' Guardian ''Liar''s Poker , but for art'' Economist ''A brilliant, devastating expose'' William Boyd DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of dealing art for a living. Their friendship lasts for fifteen years until one day, Inigo - by then the most successful dealer of his generation - disappears, accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocks the art world to its core. A sparklingly sharp memoir of greed, ambition and madness, All That Glitters will take you to the heart of the contemporary art world, a place wilder and wealthier than you could ever imagine.

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This is "Liar's Poker" for the art world. The Economist

Product details

• Authors: ORLANDO WHITFIELD, Orlando Whitfield, Whitfield Orlando
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.02.2025
• EAN: 9781788169967
• ISBN: 978-1-78816-996-7
• No. of pages: 326
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; True Crime, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Memoirs, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of Art, Art: Financial Aspects, Nero Book Awards