“When opportunities come, you take them."
Adrian Hailwood who will join Woolley & Wallis as wristwatch specialist after six years as director at Fellows.
“Businesses applying claims and descriptions to items they are selling need to take reasonable steps to ensure they are true.”
Dorset councillor Deborah Coney on the fake Alfred Wallis works that Duke’s withdrew from sale.
“We have decided that direct action and lobbying is crucial – an irreversible cultural miscarriage could take place if we risk doing otherwise.”
Dealer Philip Mould on his decision to contact clients to partake in the government consultation on an ivory ban.
“This work of art has been well-known to scholars and has a [collecting] history that spans almost 70 years.”
Dealer Rupert Wace on a Persian limestone sculpture seized by the police from his stand at TEFAF New York amid accusations that it had previously been stolen.
“Recent scientific analysis and up-to-date connoisseurship has unanimously returned the work to its rightful place among the canon of the great master’s work.”
Julian Gascoigne of Sotheby’s on a rediscovered Constable landscape that will go under the hammer in December.
