NICHOLAS LEZARD
All That Glitters
By Orlando Whitfield
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About halfway through this telling of the story of Inigo Philbrick, the young art dealer imprisoned for seven years for fraud in 2022, I was reminded of a childhood memory.
It was of the millionaire (he’d now be a billionaire) Laszlo Carreidas in Hergé’s Tintin adventure . In one frame, we see Carreidas having a phone conversation with an art dealer about an upcoming sale. ‘Three Picassos, two Braques and a Renoir?