Philip Hook

Breakfast at Sotheby's offers an entire art education contained in under 350 pages. Wry, dry, and completely beguiling, as noted by the Guardian in their Books of the Year 2013. Fascinating and highly subjective, this book is built on Philip Hook's thirty-five years of experience in the art market. It explores the artist and his hinterland, covering topics such as...

The decade leading up to the First World War was the most exciting, frenzied, and revolutionary in the history of art. This was the crucible of Modernism, when Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, and Abstract Art all developed in quick succession. There were phenomenal new innovations in avant-garde painting and sculpture, above all in Paris, where a community of artists, critics,...