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THE PRICE OF A DEAD PAINTER Book 1

By Beatrice Wolcott · 4 parts · 17 h 8 min · English

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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 English country houses are selling because wheat prices collapsed; the American buyers have fortunes and no way to tell one Italian panel from another; and between them stands a customs officer who needs a number, a restorer who leaves no record, and a Harvard-trained scholar above Florence whose sentence about who painted a picture is the only evidence anyone will ever have. This is how a price gets built for an object with no cost, no yield, and no settled identity — and what had to be manufactured first before that price could be charged. Covers Joseph Duveen, Joseph Joel Duveen, Bernard Berenson, Pierpont Morgan, Benjamin Altman, and Duveen Brothers.

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  1. Part 01

    3:57:04

  2. Part 02

    4:27:32

  3. Part 03

    4:12:24

  4. Part 04

    4:30:52

Books in this series

  1. THE PRICE OF A DEAD PAINTER Book 1

    4 parts · 17 h 8 min

  2. THE PRICE OF A DEAD PAINTER Book 2

    4 parts · 17 h 27 min

  3. THE PRICE OF A DEAD PAINTER Book 3

    4 parts · 16 h 10 min

  4. THE PRICE OF A DEAD PAINTER Book 4

    4 parts · 13 h 21 min

  5. THE PRICE OF A DEAD PAINTER Book 5

    4 parts · 18 h 53 min

  6. THE PRICE OF A DEAD PAINTER Book 6

    4 parts · 14 h 26 min