Biography
George Gordon is Co-Chairman of Sotheby’s Worldwide Old Master Paintings and Drawings Department, and Deputy Chairman, Sotheby’s Europe. He started his career at Sotheby’s London in 1980 in the Old Master Drawings department, where he ran the specialist sales in Amsterdam, moving to Old Master Paintings in 1990.
While George is passionate about Italian painting, he is best known for his expertise in Dutch and Flemish painting and drawing, and in particular for Rembrandt, of whom he has handled the sale of four significant paintings over the last seven years, but above all for Van Dyck and Rubens, both of whom reached their maturity in Italy. He was responsible for the rediscovery after nearly 250 years of Rubens’ early masterpiece The Massacre of the Innocents, which achieved £49.5 million at Sotheby’s in 2002, making it then and until recently the most expensive Old Master painting ever sold at auction, and still the highest price ever paid anywhere for a rediscovered painting.
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