Leslie Waddington obituary

Art dealer who set up his Mayfair gallery in 1966, where he gave lifelong support to British artists and championed the American avant gardeUnfailingly scrupulous and principled during five decades as a dealer in modern and contemporary art, Leslie Waddington, who has died aged 81, could never be called a “marketeer”. That was his disparaging term for the new breed of speculators who have turned high-priced painting and sculpture into vehicles for short-term profit. Such commercialis