All That Glitters - Orlando Whitfield - Bog

In a world where deceit is the price of doing business, one man has made it into a fine art ...When Orlando Whitfield met Inigo Philbrick, they were ambitious art history students who dreamt of dealing art for a living. Their friendship would last for fifteen years until one day, Inigo - by then the most successful dealer of his generation - disappeared, accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocked the art world to its core. A sparklingly sharp memoir of greed, ambition and madness, All That Glitters tells the story of what happens when art and money collide, and when friendship gets entangled in a ruthless, high-stakes world where the incentives are vast and the risks are even bigger. As Orlando watches Inigo's dazzling rise play out against the background of the contemporary art market, it is revealed as an illusion, then a scam, and finally a disaster. But is Inigo the villain, or the victim of a world that was wealthier and wilder than he could ever have imagined?