Table of Contents:
“…The British Rail Pension Fund sale -- My ancestors: Jules and Marie-Louise Strauss ; Emile Deutsch de la Meurthe ; Baron Horace de Gunzburg ; André and Aline Strauss ; Escape from France -- A childhood in America: New York ; Hans Halban -- A new life in Oxford: Adolescence ; Early passions for art ; Bryanston School ; Christ Church, Oxford, and London ; Aline and Isiah Berlin -- Harvard and, at last, art history: Harvard and marriage ; Douglas Cooper -- A chance encounter: Peter Wilson ; A description of Sotheby's ; Bruce Chatwin & Somerset Maugham -- Sotheby's in the sixties -- Developing theme sales: The Diaghilev Ballet auctions & Thilo von Watzdorf ; David Ellis-Jones and the drawing sales ; The Russian avant-garde and George Costakis ; Post-war and contemporary art sales -- Memorable colleagues in London: Julian Barran ; Hugues Joffre ; Melanie Clore ; Philip Hook --…”