Society of London Art Dealers

An update on art dealer Movers and Shakers.

The art market must now comply with the latest anti-money laundering law – despite a lack of clarity around some elements of the regulation.

More dealers than ever are flocking to fairs, according to the recent Society of London Art Dealers (SLAD) members survey.

Efforts to protect the trade’s Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) against tax reforms gathered steam this week with the publication of a letter from three leading trade associations in the Financial Times.

David Juda of Annely Juda Fine Art has taken over from James Roundell of Dickinson as Chairman of The Society of London Art Dealers (SLAD). Mr Roundell was appointed chairman in July 2010.

Business is continuing to improve but the rate of recovery has slowed among London’s fine art dealers, their trade association’s latest survey reveals.

THE Society of London Art Dealers (SLAD) have reinforced the claim by the British Antique Dealers Association that the extension of the Artist’s Resale Right next year will have a significant effect on business.

The latest survey conducted by the Society of London Art Dealers (SLAD) shows a doubling of members who now have a gallery presence abroad, mostly in New York.

MORE details have been emerging as to exactly how dealers will have to meet their obligations under the droit de suite directive.

THINGS are looking up according to the latest survey from the Society of London Art Dealers.

LONDON’S art world leaders have come up with an initiative for extending the peak selling period that is London in June.

TUCKED away through an archway next to wine merchants Berry Bros & Rudd in St James’s Street is Pickering Place, home of Nevil Keating Tollemache – formerly Nevill Keating. Pictures until director Angela Nevill formed a new company with Michael Tollemache, a past chairman of the Society of London Art Dealers and a specialist in Old Master and 19th century paintings.

ANGELA Nevill has been elected chairman of the Society of London Art Dealers and Christopher Battiscombe will take over as general secretary at the beginning of September from Neil Smith, who retires at the end of July.

CRITICISM of this column that it deals with auction results as opposed to private treaty deals is perhaps justified. The difficulty is that one is not privy to private treaty details and nor should we be.

UK: THE Internet has failed to generate any significant volume of sales for London’s art dealers in the past year, reports the members’ survey for 1999/2000 by the Society of London Art Dealers.