Warhol After Warhol by Richard Dorment

A Bad Blood for the art world, Warhol After Warhol is the riveting, whistleblowing account concerned with the intricacies of the modern art world.

Many years ago, Richard Dorment, long-time art critic for the Daily Telegraph, was approached by Joe Simon, a wealthy American art collector, deeply unhappy that his Warhols had been pronounced as fakes by the mysterious Warhol Authentication Board. Dorment explained to Simon that whatever the rights and wrongs of his case, as neither scholar, auctioneer or gallerist, Dorment could be of no use to him. But Simon would not give up and eventually Dorment agreed to meet.

To his surprise, Dorment was intrigued both by Simon and the story he had to tell; over the ensuing years, he found himself drawn into a complex story of intrigue and corruption that raised fascinating issues about art, its value, the significance of attribution and how issues of aesthetics and financial worth interact and collide. A tale of power, corruption and lies, Warhol After Warhol is a must-read for art and true crime fans alike.

Richard Dorment has had a distinguished career as historian, scholar, journalist and exhibition curator. As Chief Art Critic on London’s Daily Telegraph from 1986 until his retirement in 2015, he was named Critic of the Year in the British Press Awards 2000. He is the author of Exhibitionist: Writing about Art for a Daily Newspaper. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, his work has appeared in Burlington Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Review. In 2014, he was appointed CBE for Services to the Arts.

Pan Macmillan
Available: 10/10/23
5.31 x 8.5 · 288 pages
9781529081497
CDN $42.99 · cl