Keynote speaker addresses art trends; Sotheby's guru Hugh Hildesley visits Artexpo with advice and insight on the latest purchasing trends in the world of art

Art Business News, Jan, 2003 by Maja Tarateta

This year's keynote presentation topic is especially timely as International Artexpo New York celebrates 25 years of defining popular art. At 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 28, C. Hugh Hildesley, executive vice president of Sotheby's North and South America and senior director of Sotheby's Canada, will speak on "Trends in Art--Its Evolution Over 25 Years."

Hildesley is more than qualified to address Artexpo participants on this subject--he has been at Sotheby's for more than 40 years. He began his career there as an apprentice porter in the Old Master Paintings department in London in 1961. In 1965, he was transferred to New York, where he remained Head of the Old Master Paintings department until 1970. Over the years, he has also acquired additional knowledge of painters of the American School, as well.

Hildesley has been an auctioneer for Sotheby's since the mid 1970s, participating in this role during such sales as the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sale, the sale of the collection of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and the Barry Halper collection of baseball memorabilia. In 1995, he published The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling at Auction, considered by many to be a definitive work on the auction business.

Hildesley will be on-site at the 1A Meeting Rooms on Level One of the Javits Center for his keynote address to the industry. Visit www.artexpos.com for more information.