Sotheby's: Bidding for Class

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This volume brings to life the personalities and shrewd business sense that operate behind the glitz and glamour of the world's oldest and richest auction house. Reporting from within on famous sales and charting the contribution of the succession of entrepreneurs who have known how to read the winds of economic change to sniff out the deals of the moment, Robert Lacey shows how Sotheby's responds to a much greater need than that of connoisseurs buying works of art: the bidding for class.

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'This is no on-your-knees, aren't they wonderful corporate biography. It's a well-researched, largely accurate, acute, sometimes very funny analysis of a company which steps from scandal and hot water into the sunlight of success every month of the year' Godfrey Barker, LITERARY REVIEW' 'Written by the same old pacy, racy Lacey familiar to us from his royal books ... his talent for winkling out piquant detail is at its best' Bevis Hillier, SPECATOR '[This is] no corporate biography byt a pacy, racy book on the auction house and its characters.' ANTIQUES TRADE GAZETTE 'This is about as readable an introduction to the guiles of modern auctioneering, including its sharper practices, as you are likely to find.' ART REVIEW 'Pacy and well-reseached.' COUNTRY LIFE

Author Bio

Robert Lacey is an internationally renowned historian and biographer and co-founder of Cover magazine. His ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed MAJESTY - ELIZABETH II AND THE HOUSE OF WINDSOR was published in 1977 on the occasion of the Queen's Silver Jubilee.