Speakers

DAY 1. Introduction to Old Masters and the Art Market

David EKSERDJIAN, Speaker

David Ekserdjian is Professor of Art and Film History at the University of Leicester. Formerly at Christie’s from 1991 to 1997, and Editor of Apollo from 1998 to 2004, he is a well-known authority on Italian Renaissance paintings and drawings. He has written extensively on Correggio, Parmigianino, and Raphael, and is the co-organizer - with Tom Henry - of the National Gallery’s Raphael exhibition, which will now take place in 2022. In 2012, he organized the exhibition Bronze at the Royal Academy.

DAY 1. Introduction to Old Masters and the Art Market

Dehlia BARMAN, Speaker

Dehlia Barman is the Manager of Marketing and Business Development at ArtDiscovery. She leads customer and partner engagements world-wide, and is responsible for the global marketing and communications for the company. Ms. Barman is also guest lecturer at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art and Regent’s University, delivering sessions on the importance and value of art authentication. Her work experience includes galleries, auction houses, online art businesses and art advisory companies. Dehlia’s journey in the art world started in Lugano, Switzerland where she completed a BA degree in Communications. Passionate about the dynamics shaping and influencing the art market, Dehlia moved to London and completed her MA in Art Business at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art.

DAY 1. Introduction to Old Masters and the Art Market

Milo Dickinson, Speaker

Milo Dickinson is an Old Master Paintings Specialist at Christie’s London with a particular interest in the Italian Renaissance and British art. Prior to joining the department he was a specialist and Head of Department in European Sculpture at Christie’s for seven years. Milo is on the board of the Friends of the Bargello and the National Gallery, London Young Ambassador’s Steering Committee. He writes a blog called Art Uncovered which features interviews with dealers, curators and living artists.

DAY 1. Introduction to Old Masters and the Art Market

Will KORNER, Speaker

Will Korner is the Manager of International Art Fairs at the Art Loss Register, leading the vetting teams at TEFAF, Art Basel and many other of the world’s leading art fairs. Will also manages relationships with art dealers and private clients, and is an Antiquities Specialist working with governments, ministries and archaeologists internationally to recover and repatriate cultural property.

Will joined the ALR in 2014, and also lectures nationally and internationally on the recovery of stolen and looted art and cultural property.

DAY 2. Collectors Interchange: Sharing Ideas and Insight between Generations

Tom Stammers, Moderator

Tom Stammers is Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham. His recent book The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Cultures in Post-Revolutionary Paris (Cambridge University Press, 2020) explores the politics of collecting, the art market and cultural heritage in nineteenth-century France. He continues to publish work related to collecting, connoisseurship, museum institutions, the historiography of art and the cultural memory of the French Revolution. He has two new research projects: one related to the Orléans family and nineteenth-century French monarchism, and another related to the theme of Jewish collectors as co-investigator on the major AHRC-funded project ‘Jewish’ Country Houses: Objects, Network, People. He is a regular contributor to periodicals like the Burlington Magazine, the Literary Review and the London Review of Books, and is a regular feature writer for Apollo.

DAY 2. Collectors Interchange: Sharing Ideas and Insight between Generations

Katrin BELLINGER, Speaker

Katrin Bellinger began collecting in 1985 in parallel to her career as a dealer in Old Master drawings. Fascinated by the artistic process and the mystique surrounding it, she chose to focus on one theme: the artist at work. Since then the collection has expanded considerably and now includes over 1000 examples in a range of media — drawings, paintings, prints, photographs and sculpture — from the Renaissance to the present day. Katrin dealt in Old Master drawings for 30 years and was a partner at Colnaghi until the Gallery was sold in 2015. She is a Trustee of The National Gallery and sits on the Board of the Tate.

DAY 2. Collectors Interchange: Sharing Ideas and Insight between Generations

Keir MCGUINNESS, Speaker

Keir McGuinness is a solicitor who for the past 20 years has acted as a management and art consultant with extensive experience working in governance with museums, artists and galleries. Keir is a trustee of a number of family and arts trusts, including Chisenhale Gallery, the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust and is Chair of Art360. He was formerly Chair of the Trustees of the Whitechapel Gallery and vice-Chair of the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association and has served as a juror on the Turner Prize. Keir is also the founder of a female healthcare company, www.Calla.ly , and has for the past 50 years enjoyed the collection of works of art in various media both ancient and modern.

DAY 2. Collectors Interchange: Sharing Ideas and Insight between Generations

Nienke VAN DER WAL, Speaker

Nienke van der Wal is the founder of Young Collectors Circle, a platform for emerging art collectors. She also works as a strategic consultant for cultural institutions, creates exhibitions abroad for Dutch museums, presents Talk Shows, moderates panels and hosts podcast on behalf of clients from the arts realm, is a lecturer for the HKU Art Academy, and writes articles as well gives talks about art collecting and modern patronage.

Young Collectors Circle is a platform for emerging art collectors, offering its members and participants an exciting and international program, where they meet artists, art professionals and seasoned collectors. https://youngcollectorscircle.nl/en/jointhecircle

DAY 3. Impact of Covid-19 on the Old Masters Market

Crispian RILEY SMITH, Moderator

CRS FA Ltd, and MDNY and LAW: His business now focuses on Art Valuations and Consultancy. He has worked in the industry for over 30 years and have a wealth of experience and contacts. He started his working career at four of the main auction houses in London and founded his own business dealing in Master Drawings in 1998. He is Founding Director of London Art Week (2001), and exhibited in the event for 16 years. He co-founded Master Drawings New York (2006), and also showed in the event for 10 years, and is Chief Executive. Also he is a partner of Riley Smith Rare Books.

DAY 3. Impact of Covid-19 on the Old Masters Market

Georgina ADAM, Speaker

Journalist and author, Georgina Adam is London-based and has spent more than 30 years writing about the art market and the arts in general. She was editor of the Art Market section of The Art Newspaper 2000-2008, where she is now editor at large. She is a contributor to the Financial Times “Life and Arts” section, where she specializes in profiles of art collectors. Her books are “Big Bucks: The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century” (Lund Humphries, 2014) “Dark Side of the Boom: the excesses of the art market in the 21st century” (Lund Humphries, 2018). She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and The International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA) and chair of the membership committee of Cromwell Place.

DAY 3. Impact of Covid-19 on the Old Masters Market

Stephen ONGPIN, Speaker

Stephen Ongpin has over thirty years of experience as a dealer in Old Master, 19th century and Modern drawings. He began his career at the famous art dealership of P. & D. Colnaghi in 1986, working at the firm’s New York branch for ten years before moving to the London gallery in 1996. Working in the drawings department of Colnaghi, Stephen was responsible for researching, writing and editing the gallery’s annual catalogues of Master Drawings. In 2001 he helped to establish Jean- Luc Baroni Ltd. in London, assuming responsibility for the new firm’s drawing department and organizing their successful drawings exhibitions. Since 2006, Stephen has worked independently as a private dealer in the field of Old Master, 19th Century and Modern drawings. In December 2007 he opened a gallery in St. James’s in London. He mounts annual exhibitions of Master Drawings in both London and New York, and issues regular catalogues. In addition, the gallery participates in art fairs in London, Maastricht, Paris and New York. Among its clients, Stephen Ongpin Fine Art counts private collectors in the UK, Europe, Asia and the Americas, as well as over fifty international museums.

DAY 3. Impact of Covid-19 on the Old Masters Market

Michael PLUMMER, Speaker

Mr. Plummer is a Principal and co-Founder of Artvest Partners LLC in New York with Jeff Rabin. They advise Private Collectors, Museums, Foundations, Dealers and Fortune 500 Companies on business strategies related to art and culture. In early 2016, they established a joint venture between Artvest and TEFAF Maastricht bringing the venerable art fair to New York twice each calendar year with Artvest owning a 49% stake in the newly formed TEFAF New York. Debuting in October 2016, the new TEFAF Art Fairs were an instant critical and commercial success. Artvest integrated TEFAF New York into the cultural fabric of the Americas by creating an active Advisory Board of leading Collectors and Museum Directors, a robust cultural program, and in partnership with Bank of America, an engaged financial and cultural sponsor. They also acquired an art fair held annually in May at the historic Park Avenue Armory and rebranded it Spring Masters New York bringing together sixty-five international leading dealers across a range of collecting categories. Formerly Chief Operating Officer of Christie’s Financial Services, Mr. Plummer was jointly responsible for the structuring and development of an art fund designed as a private equity offering. He was responsible for developing art-lending facilities for Christie’s. Prior to Christie’s, Mr. Plummer created one of the earliest U.S. art funds and conducted pioneering research on art as an asset class. He remains one of the industry’s leading speakers, and has lectured at New York University, Christie’s Education, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and The Wharton School.

Mr. Plummer is a Director and a co-Founder of the Luxury Marketing Council. He received a BS in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.