For my review of the Lucian Freud: ‘New Perspectives’ Exhibition at the National Gallery in Country and Townhouse Magazine https://www.countryandtownhouse.com/culture/lucian-freud-new-perspectives-review/  

BIDDING WARSotheby’s finds itself locked in a battle with Dan Loeb, one of New York’s most aggressive fund managers. Loeb, 51, who refers to himself as an ‘activist investor’ (the current term for corporate raider), has built up a 9.3 per cent stake in the 269-year-old auctioneer using his Third Point LLC. Sotheby’s first realised
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  The City of Detroit is bust.  Selling off its exceptional hoard of art treasures could fix it – but not without complicated and legal consequences.   Ivan Lindsay, The Good Life/ Art, Spears WMS Magazine, Issue No. 35, December 2013.         ON 18 JULY, Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, seeking
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  EAST BUYS WEST – Spears Magazine, September 2013. The efforts of auction houses and dealers to help Chinese, Russian and Indian collectors acquire a taste for Western art are starting to pay off, judging by recent sales With the wrap-up of Old Masters week and the Masterpiece fair in London, an exhausted art market
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  Above: Roy Lichtenstein’s Woman with Flowered Hat went for $56 million at the recent modern art sales In a recent article, the New York Times declared that the US Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, is now a major patron of the art market. Indeed, there seems little doubt that the Fed’s policy of quantitative
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Spears WMS Magazine The timeshare tycoon, the former swimwear model, the Florida home that’s bigger than the White House – and the documentary that led to a lawsuit. Ivan Lindsay asks David and Jackie Siegel about trouble in paradise IT’S A WARM, sunny evening in central Florida. The Spanish moss hanging down from the oaks
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Ivan Lindsay, Monday, 8th April 2013 Hot lust, cold hard cash and the fine art of a dirty deal… The story of how Britain lost, and will briefly regain, one of the greatest private collections of Old Masters ever assembled is cause for grief — and rejoicing, says Ivan Lindsay ONE OF THE more interesting events
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Tuesday, 4th December 2012 With some white spirit and a restorer , your painting can go from rubbish to Rubens or visa versa, says Ivan Lindsay PAINTINGS, LIKE HUMANS, can do with a touch-up from time to time. Instead of doctors abrading unsightly bumps and hairdressers disguising the march of time with dyes, restorers remove
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Painting By The Numbers, We shouldn’t judge quality of fine art by the dollar amount being paid by a collector” but we can’t help but be interested after The Scream went for $120 million. In early May, Munch’s The Scream was sold by Sotheby’s for $119.9 million, making it the highest price achieved for a painting to
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Why Picasso is Attractive for First-Time Art Buyers…And Auctioneers Blue-Chip Period What a performer! Ivan Lindsay on the reasons why that randy old goat Pablo Picasso remains so irresistibly attractive to neophyte art collectors (not to mention auctioneers) A RECENT BLOOMBERG article led with the line: ‘Pablo Picasso has been dethroned.’ The article was referring
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