Old Masters young guns dish out auction guesstimates

To most people, Old Master paintings conjure up images of quiet, smoky, velvet-clad drawing rooms, but for how much longer? Fresh from its merger with younger Spanish dealers Jorge Coll and Nicols Corts, Colnaghi gallery hosted what was possibly the rowdiest night in Old Masters history last week. While Christies London was holding its evening sale around the corner in St James's, the gallery organised a private dinner for its younger collectors, on the promise that each of them would submit th