Auctioneers Who Made Art History

Procurement analysis, sales planning, customer orientation, brand management—the art market is changing more rapidly than ever before. The price that a work of art commands influences its place in the art-historical canon. Auction houses have become dominant avenues of distribution, as have art fairs, galleries, and art dealers. Even today the ritual dra­maturgy of the auction resembles an archaic compe­tition, which can leave participants speechless and captivate bystanders. At the center of the action is the auctioneer, whose performance is increasingly critical to the success of the auction. With portraits of auctioneers, this volume tells the story of the art auction business. Key events that played out in cities such as New York, Paris, Zurich, Berlin, Stuttgart, and Pompeii come alive and show how the auctioneer is emerging from the anonymity of a service provider and stepping into the limelight as the star of the show. (Deutsche Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-7757-3902-3)





 





In conjunction printed volumes (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3902-3, English edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3903-0) are also available.



DIRK BOLL – A Cultural History of the Art Auction in 14 Portraits

DIRK BOLL – 1 London 1766

CELINA FOX – 1 James Christie – The Power of Place, Promotion and Personality

DIRK BOLL – 2 Pompeii 1875

DIRK BOLL – 2 Lucius Caecilius Iucundus Messages from the Art Market in Antiquity

DIRK BOLL – 3 London 1882

CHRISTOPHER MAXWELL – 3 The Hamilton Palace Sale and a Global Market

DIRK BOLL – 4 Berlin 1916–1932

WALTER FEILCHENFELDT – 4 Paul Cassirer 81 Auctions between 1916 and 1932

DIRK BOLL – 5 Lucerne 1939

STEPHANIE TASCH – 5 The Antihero Theodor Fischer and the Auctioneer in the Age of Extremes

DIRK BOLL – 6 Stuttgart 1947–1962

URSULA BODE – 6 Roman Norbert Ketterer, or the Return of Expressionism

DIRK BOLL – 7 Bern 1951

WOLFGANG WITTROCK - 7 Eberhard Kornfeld Connoisseurship and Tradition

DIRK BOLL – 8 London 1957–58 and 1977

DAVID NASH – 8 Peter C. Wilson

DIRK BOLL – 9 Basel 1964

BRIGITTE ULMER – 9 Anke Adler-Slottke Stamps and the First Woman Auctioneer

DIRK BOLL – 10 New York 1990

JAMES GOODWIN – 10 Starry, Starry Night: Dr Gachet, Christopher Burge and Hideto Koyabashi

DIRK BOLL – 11 New York, London, Geneva and Zurich 2000–01

DANIELLA LUXEMBOURG – 11 The Dream of a Boutique Auction House Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg

DIRK BOLL – 12 Paris 2001–2009

ALBERT KRIEMLER – 12 Meeting Saint Laurent

DIRK BOLL – 13 New York 2004

ROSE-MARIA GROPP – 13 Tobias Meyer and the Rise of American Post-War Art

DIRK BOLL – 14 New York 2013

UDD TULLY – 14 Echoes of a Landmark Sale Jussi Pylkkänen on the Rostrum

DIRK BOLL – 15 The Day-to-day Business of Auctioneering

AMIE SIEGEL – 16 Circuit: Provenance

BARBARA BONGARTZ – 17 A Bid for Love The Heir by Vita Sackville-West

THIS BRUNNER – 18 Best Offers The Top 12 Auctioneering Scenes in Feature Films

Endnotes

Appropriation List – Auctioneering in Books, Movies, and Popular Culture

About the Contributors

Acknowledgements

Photo Credits