London's first post-Brexit global art sales

Des O’Sullivan previews London’s major February auctions.

Adding piquancy to the big London February art sales, which get underway next week, is that these are the first post-Brexit auctions.

These annual sales usually attract round-the-globe interest and large numbers of Asian and US buyers. Sotheby’s kicks off on Tuesday with Impressionist and Modern art evening sales to include three works recently restituted to the heirs of Gaston Levy, two from the Musee d’Orsay in Paris headed by a Pointillist masterpiece by Camille Pissarro.