Sotheby's appoints new chairman for jewelry division
03 Aug '06
3 min read
Sotheby's announced today that David Bennett has been appointed Chairman of Jewellery, Europe and the Middle East and Lisa Hubbard has been appointed Chairman of Jewellery, North and South America.
Daryl Wickstrom, Managing Director, and Sotheby's Global Auction Division, said: “Having consolidated Sotheby's position in the Jewellery auction world and having successfully launched Sotheby's Diamonds, these appointments show our commitment to further strengthen our Jewellery activities. Sotheby's is honoured to have two such gifted, experienced and high profile senior experts to lead and guide the auction team.”
Lisa Hubbard joined Sotheby's in 1977 and during that time she has worked in Los Angeles, Hong Kong and New York. She was instrumental in setting up Sotheby's Jewellery auctions in Hong Kong, which began in 1985 and was actively involved in the record breaking sales in New York of the Estate of Jacqueline Onassis (1996) and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (1998), also being the auctioneer for sessions of both sales.
David Bennett joined the company in 1974 and has been involved with most of the high profile collections of Jewellery to have been offered over that time, including the sale of the Jewels of the Duchess of Windsor, and the collections of Ava Gardner and the Begum Aga Khan. He held the hammer for the sales of the only three 100-carat perfect white diamonds to have been sold at auction, the last selling for the world record price of $16.5 million, and was the architect of the most successful Jewellery auction ever held, which totalled $69 million in the mid 1990s.
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