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Consummately well-informed and readable, replete with shameless gossip and memorable anecdote ... This book is a mesmerising pleasure -- Stephen Bayley * Spectator Books of the Year * This is a spirited history told with the rush and hustle of a true enthusiast ... Hook pulls his material together with verve and elan * Times * Erudite and amusing ... unfailingly enjoyable ... rich in anecdote and candid in opinion ... an invigorating introduction to the subject -- Rupert Christiansen * Spectator * A fresh and often wry look at [the] avant-garde quartiers of Paris * Sunday Times * Philip Hook makes modern art understandable and accessible to us all ... His lifetime of proximity to works by great masters has made him a well informed afficionado. [An] easily readable, engaging book -- Art Flynn * Irish Examiner * Praise for Rogue's Gallery Hook...writes suavely and racily ... has a fabulous ear for anecdotes ... his entertaining book has a Wodehousian tone that makes even the most heinous act it describes glint with comedy -- Waldemar Januszczak * Sunday Times * Fascinating and elegantly written...both wise and timely -- William Boyd * Guardian * Wonderfully entertaining ... full of cracking stories -- Hannah Rothschild * Mail on Sunday * Fascinating ... Hook writes with honesty and wry detachment -- Robert Eustace * Telegraph * A pleasure to read -- Michael Prodger * Times *

Consummately well-informed and readable, replete with shameless gossip and memorable anecdote ... The illustrations are well chosen and interestingly eclectic. This book is a mesmerising pleasure -- Stephen Bayley * Spectator Books of the Year * Erudite and amusing ... unfailingly enjoyable ... rich in anecdote and candid in opinion ... an invigorating introduction to the subject -- Rupert Christiansen * Spectator * This is a spirited history told with the rush and hustle of a true enthusiast ... Hook pulls his material together with verve and elan * Times * Praise for Rogue's Gallery Hook...writes suavely and racily ... has a fabulous ear for anecdotes ... his entertaining book has a Wodehousian tone that makes even the most heinous act it describes glint with comedy -- Waldemar Januszczak * Sunday Times * Fascinating and elegantly written...both wise and timely -- William Boyd * Guardian * Wonderfully entertaining ... full of cracking stories -- Hannah Rothschild * Mail on Sunday * Fascinating ... Hook writes with honesty and wry detachment -- Robert Eustace * Telegraph * A pleasure to read -- Michael Prodger * Times *

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Philip Hook was, until recently, Director of Impressionist and Modern Art at Sotheby's. Prior to that he was Director of Nineteenth Century Paintings at Christie's. His book Breakfast at Sotheby's (2013) was a Book of the Year in the Sunday Times, Spectator, Financial Times, Guardian, and Mail on Sunday.

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