While international auction houses are closing offices and postponing sales to safeguard against the coronavirus, local firms are pushing ahead with their schedules and closely monitoring the swiftly changing situation.
On Monday, Leonard Joel’s managing director John Albrecht found himself with the unenviable task of heading onto the auction rostrum for his jewellery sale just as news came through that the Australian sharemarket had had its worst day since the Black Monday crash of 1987.
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Gabriella Coslovich is an arts journalist with more than 20 years’ experience, including 15 at The Age, where she was a senior arts writer. Her book, Whiteley on Trial, on Australia’s most audacious of alleged art fraud, won a Walkley in 2018.
