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Goodman sells up in Australia
10 January 2011AFTER just one year at the helm of Sotheby’s Australia, Tim Goodman has retired as chairman and principal shareholder.
Christie’s appoint new CEO
27 September 2010CHRISTIE’S have announced some major management changes at senior level with the promotion of Edward Dolman from CEO to chairman of Christie’s International plc and the appointment of Steven Pleshette Murphy to succeed him as the new CEO.
Resolving the Lester question
09 August 2010IS David Lester co-owner of the Olympia summer fair or not?
Ede acquires Harrogate fair from Bailey
10 May 2010WEST COUNTRY-based Cooper Fairs have bought The Pavilions of Harrogate Antiques & Fine Art Fair from Essex organiser Robert Bailey.
Christie’s upbeat despite overall fall in 2009 sales
01 February 2010CHRISTIE’S have announced a 24 per cent year-on-year fall in sales for 2009 to £2.1bn.
Ashcroft captures ‘ultimate VC and bar’
30 November 2009THE Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft has reportedly paid nearly £1.5m for the only double Victoria Cross awarded during the First World War.
Lester on a learning curve?
23 November 2009MORE than 100 dealers braved gales to be at Olympia at 9.30 on the morning of November 18 for a meeting called by Florida impresario David Lester. They were there to discuss the London International Fine Art Fair, the renamed June Olympia which he co-owns with Clarion but very much runs himself.
Simms leaves Olympia for Florida
17 August 2009DAVID Lester’s Florida company International Fine Art Expositions have announced that Freya Simms, who recently stepped down after four years as show director of Olympia’s antique fairs, is joining them as director of sales and marketing at Expoships and IFAE.
Lester unveils his plans for Olympia fair
10 August 2009David Lester has unveiled his new plans for next year’s summer Olympia, now branded the London International Fine Art Fair.
Mark Law aims to buy back Partridge Fine Art as he blames bankers
04 August 2009PARTRIDGE Fine Art chairman Mark Law has told ATG that the firm’s bank called in administrators after giving him only 90 minutes notice to pay off their £3m loan facility.
Lester takes reins of Olympia’s summer fair
20 July 2009FLORIDA fairs impresario David Lester and his wife Lee Ann have taken control of the summer Olympia fair. They have already rebranded it the London International Fine Art Fair.
Lester secures Olympia deal
14 July 2009FLORIDA-based fair organiser David Lester and his wife Lee-Ann have secured a deal with Clarion Events to become the directors of the June Olympia art and antiques fair.
Lesters set for a January revival of their Miami fair
20 May 2009FLORIDA fairs impresario David Lester and his wife Lee Anne will launch the Miami International Art Fair at the Miami Beach Convention Center from January 6 to 10 next year.
Seafair offers a sea change in stand charges
17 November 2008FLORIDA-based art fair entrepreneur David Lester is proposing a radical new relationship between exhibitor and fair organiser in response to the global economic turmoil.
Imperial War Museum enjoys a double dose of fortune
21 July 2008LORD Ashcroft’s Victoria Cross collection – the largest in the world – is to go on public display following his £5m donation to the Imperial War Museum. The news comes as the museum has also received a donation from the Art Fund to purchase an important watercolur by Keith Vaughan (1912-1977) at auction.
Lester buys back Palm Beach fair
30 June 2008A DEAL is being finalised which means Palm Beach | America's International Fine Art & Antique Fair, is owned once again by Florida-based entrepreneur David Lester, who founded the event.
Ashcroft helps to recover stolen VCs
02 April 2008Lord Ashcroft has been at the centre of a successful bid to recover 96 medals, including nine Victoria Crosses, stolen from a museum in New Zealand in December.
Lord Ashcroft Trust to show VC collection at Spink
10 March 2008Spink are to put the unrivalled Victoria Cross collection of Lord Ashcroft on display in an 11-day exhibition in their main gallery in April. The exhibition is a forerunner to what is expected to become a permanent public display in two years’ time.
Luxury floating exhibition venue prepares for a June launch
15 January 2007ALMOST five years after the idea was first conceived by Florida entrepreneur David Lester, his luxury floating exhibition palace SeaFair is preparing for its maiden voyage in the summer.
Steel shortage delays Lester launch by months
24 June 2006SEAFAIR, the ambitious project of a floating antiques selling exhibition along the Eastern seaboard of the United States, has delayed its launch from late this year to next June.
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