Sotheby's Art at Auction [antikvár]

CONTRIBUTORS MICHAEL L. AINSLIE, who joined Sothehys in 1984, is President anJ Chief Executive Officer of Sotheby's Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Sotheby's worldwide auction and real estate operarions. In this capacity, he oversees Sotheby's four operating auction companies. Sotheby's North and South America, Sotheby's Europe and Sotheby's Asia, as well as Sotheby's Internarional Realty Company Prior to joining Sotheby's, he served as President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington D.C. RICHARD BASSETT has worked for The Times an Eastern Europe correspondent and is now a merchant banker in London. He is the author of Guide to Central Europe, Viking/Penguin, 1991. DAVID BATTIE joined Sotheby's London in 1967 and has been a Director since 1976. He is a founding contributor to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and has taken part in many other radio and television programmes. DAVID BENNETT joined Sotheby's in 1974 and was elected a Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain in 1980. He was appointed Senior Director, Head of European Jewellery sales, in 1989 and is a co-author of Understanding jewellery, Antique Collectors Club, 1989. DIANA D. BROOKS is President and Chief Executive Officer of Sotheby's North and South America, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. She joined the firm in 1979. Responsible for managing all aspects of the auction business in North and South America, she is closely involved with every major sale at Sotheby's. CATHERINE CHESTER LEVY joined Sotheby's London in 1988 CO work on Sotheby's Preview, having been a feature writer for the Irish Times. She is editor of the newly launched Auction News, Sotheby's European newsletter. GRAHAM CHILD joined Sotheby's London in 1978 after working for the oldest established firm of fine art dealers in London, Spink & Son. He is the author of the standard work on mirrors, World Mirrors 1650-1900 (publisher to come), and is Director of the English Furniture Department and the Consemtion and Restoration Department. RUTH CORB is a freelance financial journalist, broadcaster and lecturer who has specialized in the art market since 1980. From 1984 to 1992 she was Consultant to Sotheby's Research Department, during which time she created the publication Art Market Bulletin. Previously, she spent three years with the BBC as a Presenter/Producer and seven years as an Editor/Reporter with the Financial Times Magazine, the Investors Chronicle. ROY DAVIDS has been head of Sotheby's Autograph Manuscripts Department since 1975, and head of all book departments since 1982. He joined Sotheby's in 1970 as a manuscripts expert, having worked as a cataloguer at Hofman and Freeman, the antiquarian book dealers in Kent. THE RT. HON. THE EARL OF GOWRIE is the Chairman of Sotheby's Europe. He was Minister for the Arts from 1983 until 1985, and was also responsible for the management of the Civil Service and a spokesman for H. M. Treasury in the House of Lords. He has published a number of works, among them a study of 20th-century British painting. SIR NICHOLAS HENDERSON, a former British Ambassador, joined the Board of Sotheby's as a nonexecutive Director in June 1992. He is the author of several books as well as numerous articles in a wide variety of publications including Apollo Country ?/^and The Economist. He is a Trustee of the National Gallery.