The Value of Art

With style and wry wit, Findlay explores how art acquires value—both commercial and social—and how these values circulate among the artists, dealers, and collectors that comprise today’s complex and constantly evolving art world. Coloring his account with wise advice, insider anecdotes involving scoundrels and scams, stories of celebrity collectors, and remarkable discoveries, Findlay has distilled a lifetime’s experience in this indispensible guide for today’s art lover.. What is art worth? How can a work by Warhol be sold for more than $100,000,000? This critically acclaimed book, newly revised, updated, and generously illustrated throughout, explains the market for art—and art’s value for all of us.In The Value of Art, internationally renowned art dealer and market expert Michael Findlay offers a lively and authoritative tour of the art world informed by almost a half-century in the business and a passion for great art. In the process he demystifies how art is bought and sold while also constantly looking beyond sales figures to

One of the earliest dealers in SoHo, New York, Michael Findlay showcased artists including John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys and Hannah Wilke. Named Head of Impressionist and Modern Paintings at Christie's in 1984, he later became its International Director of Fine Arts. . Since 2000 he has been a director at Acquavella Galleries, New York, which in recent years has held major

“No one knows more about the market in Impressionist, modern, and contemporary art than Findlay. His decades of experience, devilish wit, and infectious enthusiasm for the best always steer the reader straight through the mercenary machinations of the business, social whirl, and profound beauty of art.” -Michael Fitzgerald, Professor of Fine Arts, Trinity College. The Value of Art is an engaging, informative and serious book.” -Judith Goldman, author of Robert & Ethel Scull: Portrait of a Collection“The Value of Art is, above all, an elegantly argued p

"The Apple of Discord" according to Christian Schlect. A useful guide to a rare and obscure territory to most of us; the grounds--principally, located in New York City and London--where the commercial exchange of expensive fine art takes place.Michael Findlay, the author, is a world-weary expert on this terrain. As an art dealer he has seen much and has firm opinions, many of the latter to which I agree (dis. financial value, social value, and intrinsic value Andrew Everett Michael Findlay has been an art dealer since 1964. In this opinionated book he discusses the value of art in three categories: financial value, social value, and intrinsic value.Findlay explains that the market value of a work of art is based on five attributes: provenance, condition, authenticity, exposure, and quality. A key message is that art collect. "An objective but passionate synopsis" according to gogofoto. Michael Findlay's The Value of Art is part memoir, part primer, part cautionary tale. Written by an expert with deep experience from a career that has spanned several iterations of a market that is poorly understood, even by those who are embedded in it, this historical review based on personal observations will broaden any reader's comprehension of the