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Peter Nahum

Est. 1984

Address	5 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2TA England
Website	www.leicestergalleries.com
Telephone	+44 (0)20-7242 1126
Fax	+44 (0)20-7637 0987

Expertise	19th- and 20th-century paintings, drawings and sculpture
Contact Name	Peter Nahum Renate Nahum
Opening hours	Open by appointment only
Affiliated to CINOA through

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Peter Nahum joined Sotheby's in 1966. He initiated the Victorian Painting Department there in 1971 and was head of the British Painting Department (1840 to Contemporary) until his departure in 1984. He was also a senior director, sitting on the chairman's committee and advisor on Victorian paintings to the British Rail Pension Fund. He left Sotheby's in 1984 to open The Leicester Galleries in St James's, London, specialising in paintings, drawings and sculptures of museum quality, mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. He now works independently, actively buying and selling and is currently advisor to major private collections and museums throughout the world. From 1981 to 2002 Peter Nahum was a regular contributor to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow, rediscovering Richard Dadd's lost watercolour Artists Halt in the Desert in 1987, which he sold to the British Museum, and an album of Filipino landscapes sold in 1995 for £240,000.