How Long to Read Stealing Van Gogh

How Long Does it Take to Read Stealing Van Gogh?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 5 minutes to read Stealing Van Gogh by Robert C. Williams

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

On the surface, the transaction was quite ordinary, In 1961, Yale University accepted Vincent Van Gogh's famous painting Night Café and twenty-two other pictures as a bequest from Stephen Clark, wealthy heir to the Singer Manufacturing Company fortune and Yale alumnus. How the painting arrived at this point and what has taken place since is a fascinating and enlightening tale that stretches over all or parts of three centuries.The story of Night Café begins at a bar in the South of France in 1888 where thirty-five year old Vincent Van Gogh painted the café interior in garish and clashing colors. What happens to the painting after that is a long journey ending over a hundred and thirty years later in a court of law. Follow this trail of art and money from Paris to Moscow, then New York and New Haven where it currently resides at Yale University. It is a story of capitalist wealth, personal obsession, greed, espionage, museum secrecy, foreign trade, diplomacy, Soviet economic desperation and the shenanigans of the art world. The secrets of Night Café's journey serve as a guide to the human condition and the history of our times.Praise for Stealing Van Gogh:"Robert Williams, arch-sleuth of Russian-American art dealings, has struck again. Decades after his insightful and droll Russian Art and American Money he now brings to us the century-long drama of the diplomatic, financial, and legal intrigues surrounding Van Gogh's masterpiece, Night Café. Spanning three regimes in Moscow and awash with American money, Williams' story should disabuse anyone who thinks art is only about art." S. Frederick Starr, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University and author of The Ferghana Valley: The Heart of Central Asia "With a light, deft hand, Robert Williams tells the fascinating story of the odyssey of a painting, Vincent Van Gogh's Night Café. From a private owner it was appropriated by the Soviet government only to end up in the hands of a wealthy American collector. The painting is the device for telling the larger story of intrigue, conspiracy, theft, exploitation, genuine good taste, and how the very rich collected treasures that the relatively poor Soviet government was willing to give up. A thoroughly enjoyable read, Stealing Van Gogh guides us through a rollicking tour of early Soviet-American relations and the vagaries of the art market." Ronald Grigor Suny, Professor, University of Michigan and author of The Soviet Experiment

How long is Stealing Van Gogh?

Stealing Van Gogh by Robert C. Williams is 243 pages long, and a total of 61,479 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 75% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Stealing Van Gogh Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 35 minutes to read Stealing Van Gogh aloud.

What Reading Level is Stealing Van Gogh?

Stealing Van Gogh is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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