Ben Lewis

The Last Leonardo

The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published: United Kingdom: William Collins, 2019.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 657g
• ISBN-13: 9781984819253
• ISBN-10: 1984819259
• Artikelnr.: 56026877

Autorenporträt

Ben Lewis is an art critic, author, documentary filmmaker, and visiting fellow at the Warburg Institute in London. He has written widely about art and culture for the international press, including The Times, The Telegraph, London Evening Standard, The Observer, Prospect, Libération, and Die Welt. His award-winning documentary films include The Beatles, Hippies and Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple; Google and the World Brain; Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty; The Great Contemporary Art Bubble; Art Safari; and Constantin Brancusi: The Monk of Modernism. Lewis has an MA in history and art history from Trinity College/Cambridge University, and he also studied at the Freie Universität in Berlin.

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'The story of the world's most expensive painting is narrated with great gusto and formidably researched detail.' Charles Nicholl, Guardian

'Forensically detailed and gripping investigation into the history, discovery and sales of the painting ... Through his fascinating and persuasive account, Lewis remains balanced; the Salvator Mundi might be exactly what its supporters claim it to be, even though it sits in "a pool of theories, surrounded by a tangle of conjecture, suspended from a geometry of clues".' Sunday Times

'A page-turning tale about the most expensive painting of all time. It's a story populated by characters straight out of a thriller: the soft-spoken but ambitious art dealer, the Russian oligarch in the middle of a messy divorce, the shadowy Swiss storage king who sidelines as a dealer, the Saudi prince eager to polish his reputation with a cleansing spritz of high art. Mr. Lewis interweaves the many threads of an intricate tale into the story of the dramatic restoration, sale and resale of the Salvator Mundi.' Wall Street Journal

'As Lewis chronicles the quest to attribute the painting to da Vinci, he uncovers an astoundingly dysfunctional world of museums, galleries, auction houses, collectors - a Russian oligarch and a Saudi prince among them ... Art, greed, and stealth make for a lively tale of intrigue.' Kirkus

'Lewis' portrait of the artist-engineer ... as a "dreamer, a doodler, and a dawdler," is refreshingly compelling ... Lively and ultimately sinister sketches from over the centuries amount to the Salvator Mundi's provenance ... A deliciously detailed, satisfying book, that is simultaneously a call for change.' Irish Times

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'Ben Lewis's book celebrates the brilliance with which jokes exposed the gulf between the Soviet ideal and its brutal reality' Sunday Telegraph

'There is a laugh on every page' John Suchet, Sunday Express