The Fine Art Of Acquiring Fine Art

The Fine Art of Acquiring Fine ArtAcquiring Fine Art used to be an avocation for the very, very rich. Morgan, Frick, Mellon -- these were the Croesuses of American Collecting in pre-income tax days. They, or their agents, laid siege to churches and palaces; with checkbooks for battering rams they smashed the barriers of protocol and national pride to acquire the masterpieces that now grace the collections of our museums. But for numerous and complex social, financial and legal reasons, this gold...