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Praise for I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon):
“[A] breezy memoir of the art market before the economic crash.” —New York Review of Books
“[Richard Polsky] weaves his personal story into the story of a business culture that has grown more venal and volatile in recent years…Art dealers have played a pivotal role in this pricey shuffle, and Mr. Polsky paints them as an entertainingly infantile, manipulative bunch…That Mr. Polsky operates at the periphery of the art world, and knows it, is an appealing aspect of I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon).” —Wall Street Journal
“Entertaining…[Polsky’s] memoir takes the reader on a wild ride about the business of buying and selling this real estate, where one must learn how to play it cool, even when millions of dollars are at stake.” —Huffington Post
“An account of the runaway market of the mid-2000s—where auction houses sold close to $400 million of art in a night, and the value of a Warhol might quadruple in a month—and one private dealer’s attempt to adjust…Polsky’s prose is as unpolished as his persona, but that only adds to the rare candor that animates his riveting account of behind-the-scenes trading. Now that the market has plummeted, we can only hope he’ll be able to buy back his Warhol and complete the trilogy.” —San Francisco Magazine