It is a truly majestic portrait.

The sellers felt that a guarantee wasn't necessary when selling such iconic works in a market as majestic as it is today.

He is the magical name in our field, but they're incredibly rare. The last major Van Gogh portrait to come to auction was in 1998 and prior to that in 1990.

The art market is incredibly healthy and stable.

An element of it is investment driven but our research has found that most of it is from incredibly wealthy people who have done their homework and have become incredibly sophisticated buyers in a short space of time.

Hong Kong is a magnet for the Asian art world. We used to concentrate on Tokyo, but the focus has moved to Hong Kong.