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MasterArt Storybook - May 2012
Groundbreaking museum show unveils the objects which helped mould modern China
THIS column is basically about dealers, what they are doing and what affects them. I would not generally give too much space to museum exhibitions and the like, dealers are quite well informed abou...
Paris Biennale set for its biggest and glitziest staging to date under the direction of Karl Lagerfeld
FRANCE may have lurched to the left with Francois Hollande’s historic trouncing of Nicolas Sarkozy, making him the first socialist President since Jacques Chirac replaced Francois Mitterand in 199...
Already London’s top fair Masterpiece recruits the world’s top art dealer to play a mystery role this year
FROM Maastricht to New York and Paris, cities have their annual antiques and art moments and traditionally in June the focus is on London. I have mentioned there are three major London summer fai...
Left Bank dealers show their animal side
LEFT Bank antiquities dealers Galerie Chenel always come up with entertaining exhibition ideas and just opened is ANIMAL, a veritable bestiary which runs at 6 Rue de Beaune, Paris until July 9. ...
Mayfair portraits expert spots the man behind the woman in a New York saleroom
MAYFAIR historic portraits dealer and more recently television personality Philip Mould has ‘outed’ the earliest surviving portrait of a male transvetite. Apart from dealing from his Dover Street ...
Sometimes opening the shop every morning means crossing continents
I note that Moretti Fine Art have their fifth exhibition of Italian Old Masters at their gallery on East 80th Street in New York until May 25, but then I see they move ‘Seicento Fiorentino: Sacred...
Olympia back to its best as it ushers in the summer fairs season in London
WITH three major fairs, The Olympia International Fine Art & Antiques Fair, Art Antiques London and Masterpiece, London’s summer fairfest looks stronger than ever this year and first up is the...
Haughtons return with a gold standard fair for serious collectors in a dream setting in Kensington Gardens
ALTHOUGH London-based, Brian and Anna Haughton really established their international reputation as top organisers with their New York fairs. They introduced strict vetting to the Manhattan fairs...
The Belles of St. Trinians ring out joyously in St. James’s
WITH an exhibition ‘Ronald Searle Remembered’ St. James’s art dealer Chris Beetles, London’s premier specialist in cartoons, pays tribute to the man considered by many the greatest cartoonist of th...
Tuscan wooden poles have their place in classic Italian art
CONTEMPORARY art has seen an unprecedented rise and rise in the past couple of decades and the whole art world has responded in different ways. There is no reason why established dealers in tradi...
Sophie demonstrates her sculptural strengths with a muscular work out at the Sladmore
IF you live in London you will have been reminded all year that the two events which dominate this summer are the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and then in late July the Olympics. There have been plenty...
Sotheby’s put down the gavel and set up their stall
DEALERS have long expressed concern at the way the major salerooms are competing in their market, and with the massive corporate publicity machine available to the auction houses who can blame them...
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