{"product_id":"9780140254877","title":"The Portrait of Dr. Gachet: Story Van Gogh's Last Portrait Modernism Money polits Collectors Dealers Taste G","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt a star-studded auction in 1990, a painting was sold for the record-breaking price of $82.5 million. That painting, Vincent van Gogh's \u003ci\u003ePortrait of Dr. Gachet\u003c\/i\u003e, has seemed to countless admirers to portray our times as \"something bright in spite of its inevitable griefs.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating book reconstructs the painting's journey and becomes a rich story of modernist art and the forces behind the art market. Masterfully evoked are the lives of the thirteen extraordinary people who owned the painting and shaped its history: avant-garde European collectors, pioneering dealers in Paris and Berlin, a brilliant medievalist who acquired it for one of Germany's great museums, and a member of the Nazi elite who sold it after it had been confiscated as a work of \"degenerate art.\" Remarkable and riveting, \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait of Dr. Gachet\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates, in dramatic detail, the dynamics of the art market and of culture in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022416265456,"sku":"9780140254877","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140254877_p0.jpg?v=1763655494","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140254877","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}