No humbug here

RICHARD FEIGEN’S obituarist in The Times wrote that he ‘was as renowned for his straight-dealing and talking as for his eye, and made it a rule never to recommend anything to a museum or private client that he would not like to own himself. He was a collector in dealer’s clothing, who always extended himself “beyond what I could afford”’.

Feigen’s career began in boyhood, with stamps, coins, moustache cups and drawings, and continued with the greatest Old Masters and Modern art. He ran his own galleries