All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art
Hardback Published on: 02/05/2024
£20.00
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Big names, big money, big scandal
Orlando Whitfield offers in ‘All That Glitters’ a brutally honest peak behind the scenes of the contemporary art world in his part memoir, part true crime ... READ MORE
A shiny, seedy, and seductive insight
Almost exactly half way through the book, Whitfield is at the peak of his Icarus-like rise--the subsequent fall, which this book takes as its impetus, impe... READ MORE
Compulsive, illuminating, intoxicating
I couldn't put it down. A fascinating immersion into the secretive world of modern art dealing, galleries and auctions in which the super-rich invest and g... READ MORE
Dizzying glimpse into an outlandish, outrageous world
Orlando Whitfield and Inigo Philbrick start out as "green-as-they-come art history students with silly names". This memoir charts their friendship and with... READ MORE
Synopsis
Deception is a fine art.
When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of dealing art for a living. Their friendship lasts for fifteen years until one day, Inigo - by then the most successful dealer of his generation - disappears, accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocks the art world to its core.
A sparklingly sharp memoir of greed, ambition and madness, All That Glitters will take you to the heart of the contemporary art world, a place wilder and wealthier than you could ever imagine.
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9781788169950
- Number of pages: 336
- Weight: 548g
- Dimensions: 320 x 231 x 30 mm
