Biography
Frances Asquith began her career at Sotheby’s in 2007 as a researcher for the Rostropovich–Vishnevskaya collection. She was appointed Head of Russian Pictures in London in 2013, transferred to New York in 2015, and joined the Impressionist & Modern Art specialist team in 2018 as Senior Vice President.
Frances has worked with a wide range of private collectors and institutions across the United States and Europe. During her tenure in the Russian Art department, she and her team helped set the benchmark for expertise across a field spanning Imperial portraiture to avant-garde abstraction, firmly establishing Sotheby’s as the leading auction house in this category. Since pivoting to Impressionist & Modern Art, Frances has played a key role in numerous record-setting auctions brought to market by Sotheby’s, such as the collections of Sydell Miller, Cindy & Jay Pritzker, and the Schlumberger family. She previously ran the semi-annual Day Sales in New York and now advises clients across the middle market and Evening sales on a global basis.
Frances grew up in England and Ukraine and graduated with first-class honors from the University of Oxford, where she studied Philosophy and Modern Languages. She now lives in Brooklyn and has been an auctioneer for Sotheby’s since 2013.
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