How a Scandal-Stained Art Dealer Still Haunts the Market for American Modernism

Andrew Crispo was a high-flying New York dealer until tax evasion and sex scandals brought him low. When David Hockney’s 1968 double portrait Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy failed to sell at Sotheby’s in 1985—bought in at $570,000 against a $650,000 reserve—few Continue reading