A pogrom could be organized over-night against all the "subversive elements"… but the rich will have to have the pants scared off them before they stop skulking in their tents and begin to get their boys safe jobs in the quarter-master department.
At one time a lynchpin in Christie's Old Masters department, the dealer ranks among the great connoisseurs in Renaissance and Baroque painting.
"It's relatively rare for a picture of this size, importance and good condition to come up for auction," said Andrew McKenzie, the director of the old masters department at Bonhams.
Before the sale Sotheby's failed to disclose that in early December the leading expert on del Sarto, John Shearman, had written to experts in Sotheby's old masters department to say that he believed the painting was not wholly by the artist.
No longer will you have to put up with the icy glare of that snooty intern in the old masters department as he corrects your pronunciation of Titian.
No longer will you have to put up with the icy glare of that snooty intern in the old masters department as he corrects your pronunciation of Titian (it's Tishin).
Anthony Crichead-Stuart, head of its old master paintings department in New York, and Paul Raison, who runs the department in London, will continue in their current jobs.
Anthony Crichead-Stuart, head of Christie's old master paintings department, visited the church last year.
"He loved paintings, she loved furniture," said George Wachter, co-chairman of Sotheby's old master paintings department worldwide.
