Philip Hook is a Board member and senior director of Impressionist & Modern art at Sotheby”s in London. He previously worked at Christie”s in the 19th Century Paintings Department. He has appeared regularly on Antiques Roadshow and is the author of five novels and many books on the art world, including Breakfast at Sotheby”s (2013) which was a book of the year in the Sunday Times, Spectator, Financial Times, Guardian and Mail on Sunday.
11 Ebooks by Philip Hook
Philip Hook: The Ultimate Trophy
In 1892 Degas’ painting In the Café was sold for a mere 180 guineas at auction, with the public hissing as the hammer fell. Less than a century later another Impressionist work, Renoir’s Moulin de la …
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€19.99
Philip Hook: Innocent Eye
A man is found dead in a London hotel room, the only clue to his identity a polaroid of a lost Impressionist painting. A young man inherits his mother’s diaries and realises her early life in France …
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€3.99
Philip Hook: Stonebreakers
1945, an art historian leads a convoy towards Dresden. Fifty years later, Oswald Ginn is sent a photograph of a masterpiece presumed destroyed in the bombing of Dresden. As the art world speculates, …
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€3.99
Philip Hook: Soldier in the Wheatfield
Parnello Moran buys a German romantic landscape at an auction, but then it’s stolen from him. When he sets out to recover it he discovers all its recent owners met violent deaths. Gradually he …
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€3.99
Philip Hook: Island of the Dead
While investigating the mutilation of a painting in a London gallery, journalist Minto Maitland finds himself drawn into a horrific story of brutality and betrayal during the Hungarian revolution. …
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€3.99
Philip Hook: Breakfast at Sotheby’s
“A witty journey through the wonderfully tumultuous world of art dealers and markets—organized in the style of a dictionary, complete with a glossary.” —Interview Two …
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€22.56
Philip Hook: Rogues’ Gallery
Philip Hook takes the lid off the world of art dealing to reveal the brilliance, cunning, greed and daring of its practitioners. In a richly anecdotal narrative he describes the rise and occasional f …
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€12.99
Philip Hook: Breakfast at Sotheby’s
Breakfast at Sotheby’s is a wry, intimate, truly insider-y exploration of how art acquires its financial value, from Philip Hook, a senior director at Sotheby’s When you stand in front of a work of …
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€14.99
Philip Hook: Art of the Extreme 1905-1914
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The ten years leading up to the First World War were the most exciting, frenzied and revolutionary in the history of art. They were the crucible of Modernism, when Fau …
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€19.99
Philip Hook: Tales of the Art World
Philip Hook returns to fiction in this collection of short stories. Many are set in the art world, of which the author has deep inside knowledge. Others are about cricket, football, war, espionage an …
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€13.99
Philip Hook: Modern: Genius, Madness, and One Tumultuous Decade That Changed Art Forever: Genius, Madness, and One Tumultuous Decade That Changed Art Forever
A revelatory, fast-paced account of the most exciting, frenzied, and revolutionary decade in art history—1905 to the dawn of World War I in 1914—and the avant-garde artists who indelibly changed our …
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€38.99
