An art dealing week in numbers

July 9 2012

Last week was the busiest of the art dealing year, with our fair at Masterpiece, an exhibition at the gallery for Master Paintings Week, and all the Old Master auctions on in London. Here's how it went:

  • No. of paintings viewed at auction: 677
  • No. of bids placed: 12
  • No. of paintings bought: 6
  • No. of paintings transported at some point during the week: 36
  • No. of visitors to the gallery during Master Paintings Week: 284
  • No. of visitors to this site: 4,466 (thanks!)
  • No. of paintings sold: 13
  • No. of miniatures sold (by my colleague Emma Rutherford): 10 
  • No. of paintings actually sold by me: 1 (hopeless)

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