Walkthrough

Introduction

Background

The term gallerist

Coming to Australia

Sunstroke

Starting in a gallery

Prominence of art in background

Army and navy family

Link between wine and art trades

The luxury trade

The changing Sydney gallery sector

The international look

Do what will sell

Working for Barry Stern

I was up myself

Please don't speak

Wanting to be an honorary Jew

The rag trade

Selling excitement

Jewish collectors

Starting collecting again

The fantasy art world

The swinging sixties

Starting collecting

Back to Australia

Not a collector but a collection

Customers instead of collectors

Early collectors

The intellectual wish

The relationship with artists

Evaluating an artist

Stealing from other galleries

The perfect relationship

Go away and get better

Understanding

Working as a dealer

Swanning around studios

Portraits

The conversation whilst being painted

The Judy Cassab portrait

Leni Riefenstahl

The Hockney portrait

Panic stations

The insecurity is tangible

Letting go of sold works

Lazy artists

Alun leach Jones

Becoming tarty

Sell but not paint

Changing discipline

Professional practice

Producing your career

A lot of self-promotion, not much work

Backwards in coming forwards

Different personalities

The smell of an artist

Attracting artists

Get whom we deserve

Gravitas and pizzaz

Going it alone

Working for Frank MacDonald

Not a scholar but a shopkeeper

Disgruntled artists

Starting the London network

Foreign content made the difference

Figurative paintings

A financial partner

Having to earn a living

Osmosis

Attracting the Picasso estate

Choosing the Picasso works

Mixing Australian and international works

Collecting some pictures

Typology of a collector

Accumulating or collecting

The white cube

Upstairs gallery

What was done defined by architecture

Looking old fashioned

Losing out on good clients

Clients much be richer that dealers

Envy

Other interests

Wagner's Ring cycle

John Bell and Hamlet

Lots of excitement in little boxes

Making Sydney more interesting

The Opera House challenge

The Opera in the Park

An interesting solution

An opera in the Piazza of Covent Garden

The Sydney Biennale

An art event not enjoyed

I don't get it!

Painters not by nature a Biennale person

Frightening art world

Glam, beauty and chic

Art becoming a performance

Art and the domestic space

The word made flesh, the idea made tangible

The art world question

The art world and the real world

Longevity of art works

An eye for posterity

Artists are like pollen

Donating the gallery archive

The Anselm Adams letter

Gallery aspirations

The dealers people know

Inventing Ray Hughes

Rex and Ray Hughes

The dealer's eye

Needing sculpture in my life

Buying New Guinea and African artifacts

Art world does almost nothing original

The shape of the trouser

The younger dealers

The moving image

The Australia show at the Royal Academy

Initial reaction to the Australia Show

The professional curators

Visits from curators to gallery

Edmund Capon dropping in

being rude to get a response

Cerberus

Art schools

Art students and galleries

Institutions dependent on their leader

Free drinks to encourage art students

Art schools like art galleries

Homogeneous arts

The personal art collection

German expressionist prints

Love of paper

The paper becomes more important

The power of the mark

Art is history

Using things as they were intended

Slipping into an historical context

Leading your mind back to somethiing profound

Making marks that change peoples' lives

Unintentional reaction

Interpretation in a context

Art recording the time

The artist's intention

Intention and fraud

When is it fraud

Facing a fake, the moral dilemma

Valuing a Picasso

Paid with a fake

How to handle a fake

Documenting a fake

Valuing a Henry Moore

if you're going to produce a fake, do it right

Building a map of fakes

Suing the expert for their opinion

The critics

Effect of a review

Reviewing institutions not private galleries

Reviewers, blogs, Twitter, etc

Life in India

The army of occupation

Going to Naval Boarding School

Seeing Turandot at Covent Garden

No library at home, but books

A reactionary family

The boring bits of owning a gallery

What made Sydney home

The importance of possessions

On holiday in Sydney

Thank you

Credits