Market 64 Art Market

Susan Moore previews London auctions and reviews Old Master and decorative arts sales 70 Collectors’ Focus

Emma Crichton-Miller on Chinese scholars’ objects 72 Around the Galleries

By Samuel Reilly 77 Art Business

Gareth Harris asks whether art fairs can ever really go green

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Artist & Countryman, by Frances Spalding 92 William Feaver, The Lives of

Lucian Freud: Youth 1922–68, by Tom Fleming 95 Food

Thomas Marks visits the V&A Café 98 From the Archives

Robert O’Byrne on the Ghent Altarpiece

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