For example, colluding with the auction house, deliberately driving up the price, buying and selling to themselves!
That's what a lot of so-called modern artists do!
Not to mention, Sarah Sullivan actually has real skill.
But if it weren't for this occasion, without Mr. Quinn's public recognition,
if Sarah Sullivan just painted something alone at home, who would care?
The auction house wouldn't represent her work.
Art brokers wouldn't bother to hype her value.
The media wouldn't swarm all over her.
At most, some talentless, unethical famous artist might rope her in as a ghost painter.
Don't think people in the art world are all so high-minded.
In fact, each one is more pragmatic and opportunistic than the next!
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Listening to the auction calls coming from behind, Grace Neumann looked worse and worse.
"Mrs. Varley, do you think all these people were just hired stooges by the Quinn Family? Just to step on me to elevate themselves?"
