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Review of the Year 2016: Movers and Shakers
30 December 2016Perhaps more than any other year in recent memory, 2016 was the year of the move. ‘Restructuring’ across all three major auction houses led to an unprecedented number of high-profile departures. Here is a summary of the key changes and the occasional game of employment musical chairs.
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Celebrity shopper boosts Sunbury Antiques Market at Kempton Park
22 December 2016A celebrity endorsement by actor Richard E Grant gave Sunbury Antiques Market at Kempton Park a boost in the run up to Christmas.
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Gorringe’s long-serving partner to retire after 57 years as an auctioneer
20 December 2016Julian Dawson is retiring from Gorringe's and held his last auction yesterday at the Lewes auction firm.
Harry Hyams' collection of art and vintage cars to be placed on public view
19 December 2016Property developer and collector Harry Hyams, who died in December 2015, has left much of his £487m estate to a charity that will preserve his collection for the nation.
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Dealer Roger Keverne donates pirate painting to Hong Kong museum
15 December 2016Asian art dealers Roger and Miranda Keverne donated a Chinese export painting, depicting pirates on the China coast, to the Hong Kong Maritime Museum.
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Christie’s promotes Guillaume Cerutti to chief executive replacing Patricia Barbizet
15 December 2016Christie’s Guillaume Cerutti has been promoted to become the auctioneer’s chief executive, replacing Patricia Barbizet who will become vice chairman.
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Victoria Borwick MP defends trade in antique ivory at House of Commons debate
14 December 2016MP and BADA president Victoria Borwick has given a passionate defence of the antique ivory trade in Parliament, strongly arguing against a total ban.
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Medal specialist David Erskine-Hill returns to Spink
09 December 2016Medals specialist David Erskine-Hill has left Dix Noonan Webb to rejoin former employer Spink.
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Contemporary art dealmaker Brett Gorvy departs Christie’s after 23 years
07 December 2016Christie’s contemporary art chief Brett Gorvy is leaving the firm to become an art advisor.
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Fake or Fortune? presenters ‘in dispute’ over new BBC show
06 December 2016A media report of a spat between two of television’s best known art detectives – dealers Philip Mould and Bendor Grosvenor – has not been denied by the dealers when contacted by ATG.
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Tributes pour in for Antiques Roadshow militaria expert Graham Lay
30 November 2016Antiques Roadshow expert and militaria specialist Graham Lay has passed away. A well-known personality on the show for more than 25 years, his death was announced by the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow.
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Art detectives needed for the nation
28 November 2016Do you know who this bespectacled gentlemen is? Or whose hand is behind this painting of ‘Laomedon Refusing Payment to Poseidon and Apollo’? If you think you do, you could become an art detective for the nation.
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Art Recovery Group’s database goes non-profit
16 November 2016Art Recovery Group, founded by Chris Marinello three years ago as a rival to long-established The Art Loss Register, has split the firm to create a not-for-profit organisation called Artive.
Steve Cohen offloads his stake in Sotheby’s
15 November 2016US billionaire investor and art collector Steven Cohen has sold his stake in Sotheby’s by offloading his remaining one million shares.
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Canterbury Auction Galleries’ Anthony Pratt is ‘knighted’
28 October 2016Anthony Pratt, managing director of The Canterbury Auction Galleries, has been portrayed as The Knight from the Canterbury Tales in a mural unveiled earlier this month in the Kent city’s high street.
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Ex-Metropolitan Museum curator joins Christie’s as head of Old Master drawings
27 October 2016Christie’s have appointed the former Metropolitan Museum curator Stijn Alsteens as international head of the Old Master drawings department.
New valuations firm launched in London
27 October 2016Well-known general valuers Rachel Doerr and Sean McIlroy launch a new UK valuations firm this month.
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Phillips promote head of design Alexander Payne to deputy chairman
06 October 2016Phillips have appointed design specialist Alexander Payne as deputy chairman.
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Tributes paid to Michael Newman
05 October 2016Auctioneer, valuer and ‘Antiques Roadshow’ expert Michael Newman died last month, aged 80.
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Antiques Roadshow's Asian art specialist joins Duke's
04 October 2016Adam Schoon has joined Duke's in Dorchester to head its Asian art department.
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