Warhol After Warhol Power and Money in the Modern Art World

Many years ago, Richard Dorment was approached by Joe Simon, a wealthy American art collector, deeply unhappy that his Warhols had been pronounced as fakes by the mysterious Warhol Authentication Board. Dorment explained to Simon that whatever the rights and wrongs of his case, as neither scholar, auctioneer or gallerist, Dorment could be of no use to him. But Simon would not give up and eventually Dorment agreed to meet with him. To his surprise, Dorment was intrigued both by Simon and the story he had to tell; over the ensuing years, he found himself drawn into a complex story of intrigue and corruption that raised fascinating issues about art, its value, the significance of attribution and how issues of aesthetics and financial worth interact and collide. A Bad Blood for the art world, Richard Dorment''s Warhol After Warhol is the riveting whistleblowing account concerned with the intricacies of the modern art world.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Dorment, Dorment Richard
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 03.08.2023
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781529081497
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-8149-7
• Pages: 288
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Dimensions (packing): 14.4 x 22.4 x 3.1 cm
• Subjects: Pop Art, Andy Warhol, Theory of art, ART / Subjects & Themes / Portraits, Modern Art, Corruption, Fake, LAW / Litigation, ART / Art & Politics, True stories: discovery / historical / scientific, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, True Story, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Art & Design Styles: Pop Art, Portraits in art, Portraits and self-portraiture in art, Civil procedure, litigation & dispute resolution, Forgery, art collector, nepotism, whistleblowing account, worth millions, genuine art, authentication board, Norgus prints, red Self-Portraits, Warhol legacy