and some sales too


The Duchess of Norfolk’s toilet service by Benjamin Pyne of London, sold at Olympia by Hawkins and Hawkins for around £1.5m.


Jeremy Taylor of The Taylor Gallery reported his best fair in 25 years, selling around £400,000 worth of 20th century British paintings on the first day alone, predominantly by Edward Seago and to mainly repeat British customers. Campbell Wilson, the Pre-Raphaelite


specialists, sold 24 paintings on the first day and, by halfway through the fair, Charles Plante had sold 50 of his dense hang of small paintings to private buyers. An oil portrait of Colonel David


Robert Michel, dated 1760, by Thomas Gainsborough, which had a ticket price of £65,500, was sold by Saunders Fine Art, and Rupert Maas of The Maas Gallery kept up steady sales, including The Vale of Health, Hampstead Heath by James Herbert Snell (1861-1935) to a client he hadn’t seen for several years. Returning to the fair this year was


specimen table, sold on the final weekend for a five-figure sum to an interior designer, a new contact, which is now destined for a villa in Barbados. However, on the first day Lucy


Johnson sold an early ‘Knole’ sofa to a high-profile UK private buyer, and continued to sell “good pieces to good people” through the week, including a 17th century Spanish yew-wood table to a top dealer, and a late 17th century English armchair to an important collector of English furniture. Also pleased with furniture sales was


Julian Bly of Solomon Bly, who sold a couple of key pieces in the first five


minutes of the fair, including an early 18th century English mahogany centre table with a framed needlework top depicting Androcles’ lion. The decorative dealers Drew Pritchard


and Fontaine both enjoyed a very healthy debut. The latter’s sales included a set of five Maltese armorial panels, dating from the mid 14th century to late 17th century, with an asking price of £16,500, to a French couple with houses in Malta and Spain, and a suite of seven chairs worth £18,000 plus a fauteuil to a hotel in Cairo. The number of picture dealers, with


19th century to contemporary works in the main, was up this year, and


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Anthony Hepworth, who mixed Modern British pictures with some early furniture and tribal art and sold a mixed media on board from 1939 by artist and set designer Leslie Hurry, as well as a painting on metal by Celia Paul, both to private collectors. Barcelona-based Mayoral Galeria D’Art once again took a big stand by the entrance and their sales included a Picasso wax crayon on paper titled Dedication to Anthony Kerrigan. In other areas, eclectic dealer Peter


Petrou had a particularly good opening day, selling numerous pieces, including two English gargoyles from 1300, as well as a decorative collection of 19th century didactic flowers. He ended the fair with a bulging contacts book after meeting multi-millionaire Chinese and Russian buyers on the last day. Art Deco specialist Jeroen Markies


sold a 1972 bronze horse by Dame Elizabeth Frink to a new buyer with a ticket price of £68,000, alongside eight pieces


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Q


Antiques Trade Gazette 23 10 uestions


MICHAEL GOEDHUIS Dealer in Chinese art, Cadogan Square, London www.goedhuis contemporary.com


1. How long have you been dealing? Over 30 years.


2. Do you do any fairs? All the major international ones including Masterpiece London, TEFAF Maastricht, the International Haughtons’ show in New York and Art Miami.


3. What was your first job? Investment banking.


4. Best (and worst) thing about being a dealer? Human psychology.


5. What has been your best buy? A Timurid 15th century dragon-handled jade wine cup now in the Islamic Museum in Kuwait. My biggest mistake was selling it.


6. What is your dream object? A 4th century AD marble lotus flower from Afghanistan or central Asia.


7. What is the biggest threat, in your opinion, to the trade at the moment? World economic situation.


8. Any advice for those starting out in the trade? Get well funded.


9. If you weren’t a dealer, what would you be? A psychotherapist.


10. Michelin Star or greasy spoon? Neither – an Italian in Battersea that I’ve been going to for years.


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