Christie's, Portobello Road, and Forty Years of Finding the Exceptional

Edward Coutts Davidson joined Christie's in London at sixteen — one of the youngest cataloguers of Modern British painting in the auction house's history. He was in the room when Van Gogh's Sunflowers sold for $40 million in 1987. He found a Gino Severini Futurist drawing at Bermondsey Market for £150 and sold it for £17,500. Over forty years, clients have included Madonna, Kate Moss, Guy Ritchie, Keira Knightley, George Michael, and the Royal Families of Thailand, Bahrain, and Kuwait. Source Me It is the distillation of those forty years.