Steve Martin wrote a novel about art collectors
Famous American actor Steve Martin wrote the book on the New York art world of collectors. On it informs edition The Art Newspaper.
The book, dubbed "The object of beauty" (An Object of Beauty) tells about a girl named Lacey Yeager (Lacey Yeager), which began with an ordinary employee of the auction house Sotheby's, established his own gallery in Chelsea in English. At the end products of the main character is forced to close it, go to Antlantu. There she worked with musician Elton John.
As the newspaper notes, Martin free market oriented in painting, what he was helped by their own experience of collecting. Among the painters whose work became an actor at the time, featured Ed Ruscha, Pablo Picasso, Edward Hopper, David Hockney, as well as de Kooning (who exactly is meant - Willem and his wife, Helen, is not specified).
In selling book by Martin has appeared on November 23. "Object of Beauty" - not the first literary experience actor. Previously, he wrote several plays, memoirs and two novels, a film adaptation of one of them, "saleswoman" (Shopgirl), he played the leading role. Steve Martin also enjoys music of all instruments preferring banjo.
In Russia, Martin is best known as an actor. Among the films in which he starred - "Planes, Trains & Automobiles" (Planes, Trains & Automobiles), "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), "Pink Panther" (The Pink Panther).
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