Author: milodickinson

John Aldridge was my grandmother’s half-brother and has always been known to me as Uncle John. He was a painter, designer and book illustrator, active from the 1930s until his death in 1983. Although not very well-known, he worked for many years alongside Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden, two artists who are more or less [...]

Apparently 80% of the Louvre’s ten million annual visitors go to see the Mona Lisa. I remember a school trip to Paris and when we visited the Louvre almost every one of us ran straight to the Mona Lisa and then onto the café. I am sure most visitors do a similar hit and run. [...]

‘We meet a lot of people in the course of our lives and sometimes you find someone who is very special. I think it is just like that with an object. There are many things out there and you have to trust your instinct, your intuition when you come across something you believe is special’ [...]

A walk round my parents Gloucestershire garden, 35 years in the making. My lockdown has taken place at my parents house in Gloucestershire, situated on the edge of the Cotswolds, the grand finale of valleys before the flat plains that lead to Wales. Katharine and I rushed down here from London to get married, in [...]

Welcome to my blog, Art Uncovered, which is my window into the art world, the art market, my life at Christie’s and stories from the past and present that I find interesting and worth investigating. I am 30 years old and work as a Specialist in Old Master Paintings at Christie’s in London. Art is in [...]