To Have and to Hold Presentation

 The Elevator to the Heavens

Joseph Duveen 

• Art dealer and collector

• “The grandest of art dealers and advisor to some of the most acquisitive collectors the world had seen” 

• Would sell art for more by saying it was “not for sale” first

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Duveen,_1st_Baron_Duveen 4

William Randolph Hearst

• One of the greatest art collectors in the world

• Client of Duveen

• Had an insatiable appetite for art

• Had an income of 160 million

• Ended up 1.6 billion in debt

• The elevator to the heavens is the elevator going up to his three-story apartment in NYC, which was filled with art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearst_Castle