![]() But there have always been people who have brokered deals for artists. MICHAEL FINDLAY It’s really only so new in its present form. ![]() Do you ever stop yourself and remember that you’re in a job your great-grandfather maybe couldn’t have conceived of? His book describes art’s social value and tries to define, as well, what he calls its essential, or human value.īRIAN BOUCHER You point out that the profession of art dealer has only come into existence in the last 150 years. ![]() Gachet, for $82,500,000.īut Findlay doesn’t want you to think about art only in terms of financial value. It was Findlay who was responsible for the famous sale of Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. He went on to Christie’s, where he served as head of Impressionist and modern paintings. He ran his own gallery in SoHo in the 1960s, showing artists such as John Baldessari, Stephen Mueller, Sean Scully and Hannah Wilke. The Scottish-born Findlay is director of New York’s Acquavella Galleries, known for exhibitions of 19th- and 20th-century masters such as Picasso, Braque, Rosenquist and Lucian Freud. ![]() ![]() Seasoned art dealer Michael Findlay’s book addresses head-on questions like, “Is art a good investment?” The Value of Art (due out in May from Prestel, $29.95 in hardcover) draws on Findlay’s decades of experience as an art dealer, and contains many tales from his time as an insider. ![]()
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