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ATG to chair Chinese debate at Olympia
ATG Editor Ivan Macquisten will chair a debate at this year’s Summer Olympia fair on the challenges facing the industry in breaking into the Chinese and Asian markets. Entitled How should the West adapt to meet the demands of the burgeoning
Asian/Chinese market?, the debate, which will be held in the London Room at Olympia at 5pm on Tuesday, June 12, will field four experts with extensive experience of working directly in those markets. Colin Sheaf, an authority on Asian ceramics and Asian art and head of Asian art
at Bonhams and chairman of Bonhams Asia, directs teams in London, Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Having developed Christie’s business in Hong Kong during the 1980s, he played a leading role in the great shipwreck sales of the 1980s and ‘90s. In November 2011, he achieved the highest price during the London Asian art auction series when he sold a Qianlong vase for £8m hammer, as well as seeing Bonhams pass both Christie’s and Sotheby’s for the total amount taken in the series for the first time. Outside Bonhams, Colin has been most excited by his involvement as one of the
two trustees of the Percival David Foundation, the greatest collection in private hands in the western world of Imperial Chinese ceramics. Andy Hei is the second generation of the Hong Kong Chinese H.L. Hei family,
dealers in huanghuali and zitan furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasties for over 50 years. He established his own classical Chinese furniture gallery, Andy Hei Ltd, in Hollywood Road, Hong Kong, in 1999. Andy’s years of experience of participating in several art fairs in London and New
Above: The Lock by John Constable, estimate £20m-25m at Christie’s on July 3. A £20m key to The Lock
IN response to the exhibition of The Lock at the Royal Academy in 1824, The Morning Post wrote: “Mr Constable contributes a landscape composition which for depth, sparkling light, freshness and vigorous effect, exceeds any of his works.” Christie’s will offer the picture for
sale as part of their Old Master & British Paintings evening sale on July 3. One of six paintings that make up the
artist’s celebrated series of large-scale paintings of life on the Stour, The Lock is the last to remain in private hands. It shows a lock-keeper at the gates of Flatford Lock while a barge waits in the basin for the water-level to drop. When exhibited at the Royal Academy,
the picture sold on the opening day – a unique event in John Constable’s career – for 150 guineas to the celebrated collector James Morrison (1789-1857).
It was inherited by his grandson Colonel James Morrison of Basildon Park, in whose family it remained until it was sold at Sotheby’s in November 1990. There it was acquired by Sotheby’s
advisory board member Baron Hans Thyssen-Bornemisza for £9.8m – then a world record price at auction for any British work of art (although just shy of the £10m-15m estimate). Christie’s vendor is former Miss Spain
Baroness Carmen Thyssen Bornemisza, whose private collection hangs mostly in a state-built extension to the Thyssen- Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. In a controversial move, the painting,
which carries an estimate of £20m-25m, will be sold to “safeguard the future of the private collection and allow the loan of other paintings to the museum to be secured for the foreseeable future”. Roland Arkell
York led him to launch the first annual Hong Kong International Asian Antiques and Arts Fair in 2006. He has developed an active fairs programme since then, culminating in Fine Art Asia, which runs each October. A collector of Chinese paintings and works of art, as well as Asian contemporary
art, he writes a special column for ATG, sharing his view on the Asian and Hong Kong art market. The latest of these can be see on page 63. Kate Bryan joined the Fine Art Society in London’s Bond Street as head of
contemporary in 2011, having previously been gallery director of The Cat Street Gallery in Hong Kong. During her four years in Hong Kong, Kate was responsible for bringing important
international names to the HK art world, including solo shows for Sir Peter Blake, Gavin Turk, David Mach, Debbie Han and a collaboration between David Lynch and the shoe designer Christian Louboutin. She was the Hong Kong Contributing Editor for Asian Art News and World Sculpture News, as well as a regular contributor of arts and travel features for Kee Magazine, Sentinel Magazine and The South China Morning Post. Prior to moving to Asia, Kate worked at the British Museum for five years. Ben Goodger is a partner with international law firm Edwards Wildman, which
has 14 offices including London, Boston, New York and Hong Kong. An intellectual property (IP) practitioner, he has over 20 years experience in advising companies on the strategic management, commercialisation and protection of their valuable IP. Ben’s clients include multinational corporations, SMEs, lenders, and academic institutions. He spent two years in Shanghai, where he managed his previous firm’s China business and Asia commercial IP groups, and has internationally-recognised expertise in advising on strategies for the protection, commercialisation and management of IP assets in China and Asia. Intellectual Asset Management magazine listed him in its IAM Strategy 250 – The World’s Leading IP Strategists in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Portobello antiques dealers in plea for more police and CCTV cameras to protect them continued from front page
few years back we had a dozen police patrolling the street, and two years back it was cut back to eight, but I was horrified to hear there were only four now. “This is absolutely appalling. The real
need for policing is in the antiques section where you have small items of very high value.” The May 22 meeting heard that there was a chance to “buy in” extra police
presence on the street, with businesses covering the cost. Cllr Caruana told ATG: “I am writing to
the borough commander to see if this is a possibility. If it is it would be a wonderful way of protecting the antique dealers. “The problem they have is in the early
morning when they arrive, from about five onwards – that’s when they feel most threatened – and again at 3-4pm when they leave. When they arrive in the morning that is actually the night-time
police, a different shift, but if traders were ‘buying in’ they could stipulate the times.” Mr Hickey said a local businessman
was interested in sponsoring CCTV cameras. It would have to be approved by Kensington and Chelsea council planners. Cllr Rock Feilding-Mellen, the council’s
Cabinet Member for Civil Society, said: “We have recently decided to upgrade our CCTV system. In the future we will be using a mix of the latest fixed and mobile cameras, possibly with automatic number
plate recognition software, and we’ll be deciding the locations of these cameras based on police advice and intelligence. He added: “We are also very open to
talks with any local businesses interested in funding special cameras wired into our system.” The Met Police did not respond to
ATG’s request for a comment. ■ For more information on the June
13 meeting call Jerome Treherne on 020 7361 2782 or email
cpeg@rbkc.gov.uk
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