Pimlico Wilde Contemporary Art
Helping collectors build exciting collections
The weather was unbearable today , humid, oppressive, the kind of heat that makes everything feel slightly damp, including one’s patience. Even the paintings seemed to sag. Even the Rothko in the office hallway looking more like a tea stain than a masterpiece. But still, the collectors came, as they always do. Heatwaves don’t touch … Read more
By Harissa Beaumont This week I made a mistake. A big one. It all started on Monday, during that dangerous, overcaffeinated window between 7:30 and 8am when I feel briefly invincible and capable of self-improvement. I was feeling sprightly,possibly due to the fact that I’d finally invoiced someone on time,and decided it was time to … Read more
It’s just past 7:30 p.m., and the gallery is finally quiet , the last collector, a hedge fund type from Knightsbridge, lingered long enough to drain both the Bordeaux and my patience. I’m writing this from the velvet sofa in my office, still surrounded by fragments of today’s madness: swatches, sales sheets, and the unmistakable … Read more
This week, London was officially hotter than Marrakesh, Naples, and quite possibly the inside of a functioning kiln. While the city melted in slow motion, I attempted to conduct business from what might as well have been the inside of a toasted marshmallow. Let me say this clearly: London is not designed for heat. We … Read more
By Harissa Beaumont Some names have been changed to protect the innocent Monday began, as it often does, with a desperate phone call from a collector who has the purchasing sense of a Labrador with a trust fund. Gerald, a man who once claimed Basquiat was “a type of French bread,” had set his sights … Read more