The Art of the Steal tells the story of several larger-than-life figures - the billionaire tycoon Alfred Taubman; the most powerful woman in the art world, Dede Brooks; and the wily British executive Christopher Davidge - who conspired to cheat their clients out of millions of dollars. It offers an unprecedented look inside this secretive, glamorous, gold-plated industry, describing just how Sotheby's and Christie's grew from clubby, aristocratic businesses into slick international corporations. And it shows how the groundwork for the most recent illegal activities was laid decades before the perpetrators were caught by federal prosecutors.
- ISBN10 0399150935
- ISBN13 9780399150937
- Publish Date 11 May 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Putnam Publishing Group
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 406
- Language English