Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man

“Findlay’s memoir is as much a portrait of a bygone era in New York as it is one of an art dealer’s youth.” — The Wall Street Journal   “[Findlay] takes readers along for a rollicking journey through the fabled days of New Yorks downtown art scene in the 1960s. A breezy, bantering tale of sheer luck, 1960s hijinks, inventiveness, and high art madness, he endearingly describes the artists, dealers, and collectors that turned the SoHo loft scene into a lasting hotbed of cultural and artistic innovation.” — New York Sun   “A wild ride through the 1960s New York scene. The seasoned art dealer Michael Findlay's brash and irreverent memoir of his life as an upstart in New York City during the swinging 1960s is a kind of Barry Lyndon tale, rich in anecdotes about the early and innocent days of SoHo as a budding art district.” — The Art Newspaper   “Findlay looks back at the wild art world of 1960s New York, when buildings in Soho sold for a song and the appreciation of a work of art outweighed its investment potential. [He] invites others to experience the joys and satisfactions of art, transporting us back to a particular moment in time, before the art world turned into a market.” — Puck Magazine   “Findlay provides a charming chronicle of his early forays in the art world. Art lovers will find this irresistible.” — Publishers Weekly   “Findlay’s evocatively recounted journey offers a new perspective on twentieth-century cultural history and a gripping tale for anyone interested in the post–World War II art market, and sixties and seventies New York.” — FAD Magazine   “The Sixties art scene conjured up by Findlay in his memoir is maverick, experimental and far less bothered about the bottom line.” — The Times   “Pleasingly designed… a funny, generous, irreverent, and informative book. Findlay’s tell-all approach, naming names, as well as prices and process, real estate maneuvers and relationship maneuvers, make for a fascinating, revealing, and sometimes tawdry picture that successfully removes the mystic of how value is manufactured in the art world.”  — Art & Object   “In his photo-rich memoir, art dealer Michael Findlay documents art's grooviest era with civic-mindedness, wit, and uncommon egolessness.” — Shelf Awareness   “An account that is in parts journalistic, an eyewitness testimony, reminiscences, as well as a personal chronicle with commentary… Findlay is a fine storyteller— he provides vivid descriptions of the New York art scene.” — TUSSLE Magazine