Article: Manet, Monet, Money; Making a big Impression: Hollywood actress Sharon Stone at a New York modern art auction.

Article: Sotheby's spectacular; Impressionist and modern art ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  June 15, 2006 ;     688 words ... ... sterling]89 million, the most ever realised in London for a sale of impressionist works. Philip Hook, the auction house's senior director of modern art, said the boom is partly due to sterling's strength against the dollar but also to the ...

Article: A nose for fine art and even finer intrigue; The Soldier in the ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  July 25, 1998 ;     653 words ... ... the picture and prove its authenticity, forms the basis of Philip Hook's taut and gripping new thriller. And in Parnello Moran ... director of Sotheby's Impressionist Picture Department, Philip Hook recently found himself at the centre of one of the most extraordinary ...

Article: ART Dali and I: Exposing the Dark Circus of the International Art ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  February 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... an amoral man moving through a world that proves to be even more amoral than he is, there's no denying its fascination. Philip Hook's book really is well written. It's elegant, informative and witty - even though he has an annoying habit of repeating ...

Article: The Knack: How To Value A Painting By Philip Hook, ...
The Independent - London;  April 27, 2001 ;     700+ words ...THERE ARE definite criteria that determine the value of a painting. At the moment at Sotheby's we have an unusual case of a painting which hasn't been seen for around 100 years. It's part of Monet's Haystack Series and was painted in 1890 and bought five years later by his friend, the collector

Article: Cardinals for starters: a review in the February 1987 issue of ...
Apollo;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...In one of his rare excursions into art-criticism P.G. Wodehouse describes, through the eyes of Bertie Wooster, a picture in the residence of Sir Watkyn Bassett, Totleigh Towers, Gloucestershire. It was 'a fairish-sized oil painting of a chap in knee-breeches and a three-cornered hat gazing at a

Article: TAPPING INTO APPLE FOR LUXE INSPIRATION.
WWD;  June 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the only one rattling cages during the biannual conference, which took place at the Great Eastern Hotel. Philip Hook, head of modern art at Sotheby's, talked about how today's status symbols are about contemporary art rather than antiques ...

Article: Modern Art looking good
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  May 28, 2004 ;     638 words ... ... Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-28-2004 Modern Art looking good -- Gets rail for N.J. Classic ... The tide seems to have turned in favor of Modern Art in the rivalry with I Am A Fool. Modern Art has the momentum and the coveted rail for ...