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The Man Who Helped Create the Modern Art Market Has a Few Regrets

The new English translation of Rudolf Zwirner’s autobiography traces the seeds of today’s big money. In 1960, after only a year in business, Rudolf Zwirner’s fledgling gallery in Essen, Germany, was in serious debt. In a panic he turned to the dealer Hein Stünke, whose gallery in Cologne, Der Spiegel, had become a gathering place…

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