By Pey Kan Su2021-03-01T13:55:00+00:00
The Law Society’s Art Group is holding its 61
st Annual Exhibition. This year, due to the pandemic, the group will be holding the exhibition online hosted on the Law Society’s website. We miss the buzzing annual exhibitions traditionally held at the Law Society’s Reading Room in Chancery Lane.
Hopefully, it won’t be long when the group can return to the Reading Room. In the meantime, we have embraced the online exhibition and believe that it will take the show to a new realm reaching a wider audience than is possible with a physical exhibition. As they said, every cloud has its silver lining.
British family sells $10m Van Gogh to avoid rise in capital gains tax
Staff writer
A British family are selling a Vincent Van Gogh drawing for a record breaking $10m (£7.1m) to avoid a potential rise in capital gains tax in next Wednesday’s budget.
Thomas Gibson, a London art dealer, and his three sons have decided to sell the Van Gogh alongside seven other works, including art by Lucian Freud and Henry Moore for an estimated total of $23m (£16.3m), because Gibson fears an increase in capital gains tax will affect his sons’ inheritance.
The highest price paid for a Van Gogh drawing is $8.5m for his
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