LONDON.- Echoing the career of his father, who founded
Simon C. Dickinson Ltd. in 1993, Milo is joining from Christies where he has worked for over a decade in several leading roles in both the Old Master Paintings and European Sculpture departments. Milo joined Christies in 2011 and first became a Specialist and then Head of Department in European Sculpture. He was then hired by the Old Master Paintings department as a Specialist and subsequently Head of Private Sales in London. A widely respected art expert and enthusiast, Milo is on the Steering Committee for the National Gallery Young Ambassadors and on the Board of the Friends of the Bargello Museum.
Following Milos arrival, Dickinson will immediately expand into selling Old Master Sculpture, and the gallery will present Impressionist, Modern British Art and Old Masters alongside each other in fresh and original settings, offering a contemporary salon for art connoisseurs and enthusiasts. As a family business, Simon and Milo Dickinson will offer their combined experience and expertise to both new and established clients, guiding them at every stage of their collecting journeys, and combining rigorous scholarship with a passionate enjoyment of art and collecting.
Simon Dickinson, co-founder and Chairman: It is with great pride and excitement that I welcome Milo to the company. Like myself, Milo has spent the early part of his career at Christies and during that time I have seen him develop a reputation for his unique expertise in both paintings and sculpture and for his understanding of where the art market is going over the next decades. He also has an ability to communicate his knowledge with passion and humour and I firmly believe these skills will be of huge benefit to Dickinson now and looking forward with an eye to the future.
Thirty years after the company was founded, Dickinson is now a family business, and it is the time for the next generation to make its mark on the art market. Milo and I want to provide our clients with a personal approach and dedicate ourselves to improving their collections.
Milo Dickinson: I am delighted to be joining Dickinson, the company co-founded by my father 30 years ago, as Managing Director. Dickinson has earned a reputation for sourcing and offering the finest Old Master, Impressionist and Modern paintings, and has led the international private art market for three decades; it is hugely exciting to be following in his footsteps, and to have the opportunity to work together and build on his legacy.
My father has been at the forefront of the art market for over fifty years and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of paintings. Im hugely excited to bring my own expertise in sculpture and paintings, as well as knowledge and insight of the 21st century art market from my recent years at Christies; I believe that together, we offer the perfect combination with which to guide the next generation of collectors.
Dickinson looks forward to exhibiting a variety of works at TEFAF Maastricht 2023, from a Renaissance portrait by Ambrosius Benson to a 1989 charcoal nude by Lucian Freud. Highlights of the Dickinson stand will include an exceptional sculpture by Giambologna and a magnificent late pointillist seascape by Paul Signac.