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Warhol After Warhol
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘A pacy legal thriller, packed with a colourful cast of characters’ Telegraph
One winter afternoon in 2003, art critic Richard Dorment answered a telephone call from Joe Simon, an American film producer and art collector, ringing at the suggestion of his neighbour, David Hockney. The Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board had declared the two Warhols in Simon’s collection to be fake,...
Details
288 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Art critic Richard Dorment brings to vivid and fearsome life the characters in a protracted and hugely expensive legal battle over the authenticity of a Warhol printThe Observer
A pacy legal thriller, packed with a colourful cast of charactersThe Telegraph
In lucid prose, Dorment distils ideas that have dominated art theory for decades . . . The tale could easily have been arcane and legalistic in the telling, but Dorment disentangles the thicket of names, emails, off-the-cuff remarks, snatches of gossip and deposition transcripts with masteryThe Spectator
Funny, erudite and knowledgeable, Dorment enlivens what, by his own admission, is “an esoteric dispute on a rarefied subject” . . . This book feels germane to our cultural momentFinancial Times