Antiques Trade Gazette 31


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dealers’ diary Family fine art photographs


For the record, this is not about Olympia…


THERE can be few more loyal fans of the Olympia fairs in West London than rock star Bryan Ferry. Not only does he regularly shop there,


but last summer he lent works from his noted Modern British art collection for a loan exhibition. So when I saw the title of his just-


released new CD is Olympia, I wondered if it was a homage to his favourite fair. It would be a timely treat indeed for the imminentWinter Fine Art & Antiques Fair. Alas, it is nothing to do with fairs


but refers to the Roxy Music singer’s recording studio which is just round the corner.


… but this wintry thought certainly is


NO doubt Bryan Ferry is looking forward to next week’s winter outing at Olympia. Certainly after last year’s, perhaps surprising, success the 140 exhibitors, are.


But I’m left with the rather odd


thought that, apart from skiers, dealers must be among the very few people who look forward to winter with hope but towards summer with some trepidation. The November show has attracted


seven dealers new to any Olympia, includingMark Mitchell of the London picture dealing dynasty, centred on Bond Street’s John Mitchell Fine Paintings. It also sees the the return of no fewer


than 17 dealers after an absence, among them such notable Olympians as Charles Plante, David Pickup, Hansord, Julian Hartnoll and Richard Gardner. Craig Carrington, the Gloucestershire


dealer in neoclassical objects, returned, after a long period, to last year’s show which was ”immensely successful” and decided only last week to give it another go. But he no longer does the Summer


Above: It’s a family affair… proud parents Mary and Roger Heath-Bullock with daughter Charlotte.


Olympia, where he was once a fixture. And that is what organiser Chris


Gallon, whose team have done a great November job, must be thinking about very hard. November Olympia stands every chance of business. But Summer Olympia is the one to worry about. So many dealers are uncertain about


the future of June Olympia, once the Clarion flagship, that it must be the major worry for Clarion and Mr Gallon. Or at least it should be. However well November does, next


June remains the problem to solve. At least that is what dealers to a man


are telling me. Merry Mayfair


GLAD to see the Christmas spirit is abroad in Mayfair where four of Bond Street’s really big guns have jointly organised an Open Evening at their elegant galleries on December 8. Mallet distributes the bubbly at


141 New Bond Street, S.J. Phillips do the honours at 139, The Fine Art Society at 148 and Richard Green at 147.


Celebrating in Sandra’s world


NEXT year, Sandra Hindeman, the expert Paris and Chicago dealer in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, is celebrating the 20th year of her gallery Les Enluminures in Le Louvre des Antiquaires near the Louvre in the heart of Paris. And a busy year it is. Her acclaimed exhibition France 1500:


Above: Sandra Hindman in her Paris gallery.


The Pictorial Arts at The Dawn of the Renaissance at the Paris gallery has just been extended to January 1, after which it travels to New York to be shown at the C.G. Boerner Gallery on East 73rd Street


Above: keep on running…Nynke in training for the marathon.


from January 19 to February 5. Then, in April, the show moves on


to Chicago, where Sandra also has an office, to run at Joel Oppenheimer in the Wrigley Building, North Michigan Avenue from April 12 to 23. The dealer is also professor emerita


at Northwestern University in Chicago, where she spends roughly half the year. As well as teaching, curating,


researching and dealing, Sandra will also find time to exhibit at the Winter Antiques Show in New York in January and at Maastricht in Holland in March. Sandra may be marking her French


anniversary in 2011 but after January much of the celebrating will be anywhere but France.


THREE generations of Heath-Bullocks have been involved in the Godalming, Surrey, antiques business, and handling the marketing for a new exhibition is the newest family member to join, Charlotte, daughter of the present head of the clan, Roger Heath-Bullock and his wife Mary. Roger, who took over the business founded by Arthur Heath-Bullock, has not held an exhibition for some time. As he is a BADA representative and a veteran of top traditional quality fairs, it’s no surprise that this one, An English Country Christmas running from November 18 until Christmas, has 18th and early 19th century furniture at its core. While visitors may be surprised to see contemporary work including


photographs, remember that this is a family enterprise. On show are the much-collected black and white photographs of Luke Sheridan- Oliver, who is married to Roger’s step-daughter Lucy. I should mention that family links are not enough – Charlotte honed her PR skills working with both Olympia and Grosvenor House and Luke trained under Clive Arrowsmith, who snapped the iconic cover of Paul McCartney’s album Band on the Run, and has worked with David Bailey and the late Lord Lichfield. Also showing his work is Central St Martin’s-trained Ben Taggart, a renowned model maker who was commissioned by Prince Charles to replicate Highgrove.


Marathon girl


YOU may well have bumped into Nynke van der Ven on the stand of her family firm, Vanderven & Vanderven Oriental Art, on the first right-hand corner as you walk into TEFAF Maastricht. Her husband, Floris, is chief executive of the Dutch dealership and Floris’s uncle Clemens, is a founding father of TEFAF. However, you may not have seen Nynke in action like this… My picture, left, shows her running in a recent Amsterdam half marathon in training for the November 7 New York Marathon at which she planned to raise money for a charity to combat Rett Syndrome, from which her five-year-old niece, Celeste, suffers. We go to press before the race, but I’d be delighted to hear how Nynke fared.


Mark’s just not the retiring type


LESS than three months ago I reported that Cambridgeshire country furniture dealer Mark Seabrook, for 15 years a familiar figure at fairs, especially Olympia, was retiring from the fairs scene because he decided standing was no longer worth the money or effort. Knowing Mark as I do, I suggested that we may see him back sooner rather than later. It did not take long. Glancing down the cast list for Sue


Ede’s Powderham Castle Fair, which opens near Exeter on November 19, I notice he is back on the circuit. And he goes west following a successful NEC. So what of the late summer decision


to quit? Mark tells me: “Yes, it was a short


retirement and I enjoyed it. But what I mean is that I have retired from the London fairs.”


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