‘We need to find whoever’s in charge and bang him some cash’: the day Inigo Philbrick and I tried to bag a Banksy

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‘We need to find whoever’s in charge and bang him some cash’: the day Inigo Philbrick and I tried to bag a Banksy

An exclusive extract from Orlando Whitfield’s explosive book about the $80m art fraudster• ‘The money is not real – it’s a feckless level of wealth’ – read an interview with Orlando WhitfieldTo be a good art dealer you need to be both prescient and manipulative. The mere ability to spot a trend or an artist is not enough. You have to know how to get what you want from the situation, to buy early and hold your nerve. That I never had this instinc…