Philip Hook is a senior director of Sotheby's and appears regularly as picture expert on BBC1's hugely popular The Antiques Roadshow. He read History of Art at Cambridge, where he also gained a soccer blue. He is a passionate Chelsea supporter.
In 1892 Degas' painting In the Café was sold for a mere 180 guineas at auction, with the public hissing as the hammer fell. Less than a century later another Impressionist work, Renoir's Moulin de la Galette, sold at Sotheby's for $78 million, accompanied by enthusiastic applause....
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