Or when a London dealer snapped up five paintings, presumably for stock, paying well above the high estimate on every lot.

You can't blame them; this is what some London dealers do.

Richard Green, a London dealer, bought it for $1.54 million, the same price as four years ago.

The London dealers have just been through and the carefully arranged display is now a scene of devastation.

A London dealer had been trying to sell it for twice the price not long ago, and the audience knew of its past.

I went to art school and I've got a London dealer.

A London dealer was offered a half share in it at a the very low price of £12,500, but he declined.

But it is hard to find a London dealer who doesn't consider it the overwhelming factor.

In the past six months one London dealer says he has bought $2.5 million worth of the metals for a single client.

A member of the family has suggested that it may have been purchased from a London dealer about 1920.