Bart Drenth is now TEFAF's global managing director.
Drenth becomes latest TEFAF head
TEFAF has appointed Bart Drenth as global managing director overseeing TEFAF Maastricht and TEFAF New York.
He served as an interim director since February and now shares the title of managing director with Charlotte van Leerdam who is currently on medical leave.
Drenth, who was previously a management consultant with a number of cultural institutions, will also work with Hidde van Seggelen, president of TEFAF’s executive board.
Hindman expands and opens new HQ
Gemma Sudlow of Hindman.
Chicago auction house Hindman is continuing its expansion. It has opened new headquarters in the city’s West Loop.
The Carroll Avenue headquarters is located at The Auxiliary, a historic building which housed the former Benrus Watch Company.
The firm has also opened a newly renovated office at 222 North Maplewood Avenue. Hindman purchased the 68,000 sq ft building in April, which is now home to several of its departments. It has left its former office in West Lake Street.
The firm employs 175 people across 16 cities and recently hired Gemma Sudlow from Christie’s who joins as managing director for its New York region.
She will focus on launching the firm’s first full-service Manhattan saleroom. It follows new offices in Boston and Miami.
Sudlow previously worked at Christie’s in private collections and decorative arts in New York and has worked in the auction field for 17 years.
Fox joins Chiswick Auctions
Chiswick Auctions' Paul Fox.
Chiswick Auctions has appointed Paul Fox as its new head of department for wine, whisky and spirits.
Fox was previously a general valuer heading the monthly Interiors, Homes & Antiques sales at the west London firm. He had already completed a Wine & Spirit Education Trust qualification and has now decided to focus on his interest.
Jones signs up with Kinghams firm
Carol Jones has joined Kinghams.
Cotswold auction house Kinghams has appointed Carol Jones as its regional manager.
Jones, previously at Hansons, joins Kinghams to oversee implementation and development of its regional valuation days, one-off events and client relations.
Soriano is elected as Art UK chair
Kathleen Soriano is the new chair of Art UK.
Image: David Emery.
The art curator, writer and broadcaster Kathleen Soriano has been elected as the new chair of the board of trustees at the charity Art UK - the digital home for the UK’s national collection of art.
She will be supported by new vice-chair, George Entwistle, former directorgeneral of the BBC.
Update on Omai fundraising sum
A detail of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ (1723-92) portrait of Omai (c.1776).
The National Portrait Gallery has raised half the funds toward keeping Sir Joshua Reynolds’ (1723-92) Omai portrait in the UK.
A deadline to raise the £50m needed was extended earlier this year to March 2023 after the picture was blocked from export (see ATG No 2535). The life-size painting depicts Omai, who travelled with Captain Cook on HMS Adventure to London in 1774 and became one of the earliest and most celebrated Polynesian visitors to England.
Dealer Guy Morrison had purchased the painting in 2001, possibly on behalf of Irish businessman John Magnier.
Then for the past 20 years it has been the subject of two other export blocks. It was blocked in 2002 but, after the Tate raised the then £12.5m needed, the offer was refused by the owner.
After other requests Magnier put the picture on display in Dublin’s National Gallery of Ireland for six years.
A temporary export licence from the UK was also refused in April 2012.
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