Art Market Update

Kelly Crow's report on Brueghels was brilliant. (To succeed as an Old Master buyer, collectors must be willing to navigate a clubby, oak-paneled world dominated by a handful of dealers, such as Richard Green in London and Otto Naumann in New York, and a slew of heady collectors, from investor activist Carl Icahn to investment banker Leon Black. A pilgrimage must also be made each March to gossip and shop at the prestigious European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, Netherlands. Spot on.)