In 1958, the clubby world of London art dealers got a jolt as Sotheby’s changed the way the auction business was done.

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Books may furnish a room ... s U.K. and the author of a fine biography of the British art historian Kenneth Clark. “Rogues and Scholars” is not quite a tell-all. It is a tell-almost.