Dealers

UK: BOND Street dealers Mallett have revealed a year on year 18 per cent fall in pre-tax profits for the first six months of 1999 to £2.68m.

UK: CHRISTIE’S and Agnew’s have confirmed that they have successfully negotiated the sale of the Millais masterpiece Mariana in the Moated Grange to the nation in lieu of tax.

Dealer James Butterwick has called for the restitution of of 41 artworks by Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Bohomazov (1880-1930) to national institutions.