THE PRICE OF A DEAD PAINTER
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THE PRICE OF A DEAD PAINTER Book 1
4 parts · 17 h 8 min
Hull, London, Paris and New York, 1869 to 1914. A Dutch importer's son turns a family business in Delft pottery and tapestry into the machine that moves European pictures into American houses.
THE PRICE OF A DEAD PAINTER Book 2
4 parts · 17 h 27 min
New York, London and Washington, 1914 to 1939. The pictures are already crossing the Atlantic; what happens now is the argument over whose names are on them and where they will finally hang.
THE PRICE OF A DEAD PAINTER Book 3
4 parts · 16 h 10 min
London, Paris and New York, 1869 to 1939, and the laboratories that came afterward. An Old Master has no cost of production, no yield and no settled identity, and yet in 1921 one English portrait changed hands for $728,800.
THE PRICE OF A DEAD PAINTER Book 4
4 parts · 13 h 21 min
Los Angeles and New York, 1969 to 1990. A UCLA English graduate with a felony forgery plea behind him buys posters for two dollars, frames them, and sells them for fifteen.
THE PRICE OF A DEAD PAINTER Book 5
4 parts · 18 h 53 min
New York, London, and the storage vaults in between, from 1990 to the present. The contemporary art market collapses in the autumn of 1990, and what is built on the wreckage is a trade in resale: pictures bought from one owner and sold to another at prices nobody outside the room can check.
THE PRICE OF A DEAD PAINTER Book 6
4 parts · 14 h 26 min
New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong and Gstaad, 1995 to 2026. Larry Gagosian turns a dealership into an institution: nineteen or twenty exhibition spaces on three continents, more than three hundred employees, a publishing arm, an advisory arm, and a board of directors with an LVMH executive on it.