Picture Cataloguing Until about 40 years ago cataloguing consisted of the compilation of information about a work of art (as opposed to the catalogue raisonne which involved bringing together all the known information about an individual artist). The process of cataloguing was never deemed to require a specific skill other than the (now rare) ability
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Family Jewels Faberge heirs buy back the name and relaunch the jeweller by Ivan Lindsay Fabergé, jeweller to the last tsars, the British royal family and the European aristocracy before WWI, has been re-launched this summer by Sarah and Tatiana Fabergé. The two cousins, the last surviving great-granddaughters of Peter Carl Fabergé, have teamed up
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‘Russian Art Revolution,’an introduction to the emerging Russian art market, Country House magazine, Issue No. 3, May 2007. A sleeping bear awakes Anyone working in upmarket real estate, oil, gas, diamonds, timber, mining or metals will already be aware that the Russians have arrived. The marriage between Russia’s vast natural resources and Western markets is
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Moscow World Fine Art Fair May 2008 The following is a transcript in article format of the lecture given by Ivan Lindsay. “ Good evening – ladies and gentleman and auction house representatives.I have been asked to talk on:- ‘The influence of art dealers and collectors on the development of the art market. The traditions,
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Art thieves thrive in times of economic hardship. Ooh, the sneaky little villains! Hanging’s not good enough for ’em, says Ivan Lindsay As the recession deepens and the losses filter out from the financials into the wider economy, unemployment is on the rise. In the same week in December as Citicorp announced 50,000 layoffs, the
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Precis of a speech given by Ivan Lindsay at the ‘MENSA at Cambridge 2008′ conference at Magdalene College, Cambridge University, 1/7/2008 The Seven Deadly Sins SLOTH GREED WRATH GLUTTONY PRIDE ENVY LUST Join us along with our line up of top International speakers, each allocated a deadly sin to talk on and for you to
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Despite the hype and high-profile exceptions, the contemporary art market is unsustainable and unlikely to offer long-term rewards, says Ivan Lindsay Although the contemporary art market appears to continue its breathtaking ascent, with ever more outrageous prices paid for art on which the paint has only just dried, a close analysis of the recent sales
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Country and Town House magazine, Issue No. 21, January 2009. As the deadline approaches to save the Duke of Sutherland’s Titians for the nation, Ivan Lindsay assesses what the paintings and their potential loss will mean for Britain In late August 2007, the National Gallery of Scotland, in Edinburgh, received the news it had been
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In a recent GstaadLife editorial, Taki, Gstaad’s self-appointed gatekeeper and commentator, wrote an article entitled ‘The fabric of Gstaad’, in which he wonders if Gstaad is going to follow Courcheval, Chamonix and Verbier in becoming a playground for the Russian oligarchs and a Monte Carlo in Saanen. He blames the Russians for the problems in
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Ivan Lindsay is a private art dealer in European and Russian paintings and has established world record prices for many artists including Goya, Canaletto and Hobbema. He is also a publisher and writer and writes for the magazines Country House, Millionaire, Spears Wealth Management Survey and the Art Book Journal. The indispensability of Russia’s vast
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