Excerpt from Other People's LivesHe was completely overshadowed, however, by his astonishing nephew Joseph, who built a fabulous career upon the simple observation that Europe had art, while America had money. He told his American clients, You can get all the pictures you want at fifty thousand dollars apiece - that's easy. But to get pictures at a quarter of a million apiece - that wants doing! He promoted the prices of pictures, both in buying and selling, to astronomical heights, at the same time transforming America's taste in art, and in a few decades establishing American collee tions as among the finest in the world.He revealed the perfection of salesmanship in playing Off his wealthy clients one against the other - Mellon, Frick, Kress, Morgan, Huntington, Widener - and yet made it appear that he was unwilling to part with his treasures - as perhaps he was.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.