The great London auction reshuffle

In a collective nod to a downturn in revenue from Europe and the importance of their Asian clientele, the three major auction houses have rescheduled their February sales to avoid clashing with the Lunar New Year celebrated in China. Christies and Sothebys have moved their Impressionist and Modern and Surrealist sales to 28 February and 1 March respectively, as we went to press, while Christies, Sothebys and Phillips are holding their post-war and contemporary evening sales in the second week o