Dirk Boll 
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.

Table of Content

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