Tabitha Philpott-Kent is a Print Specialist at Bloomsbury Auction House. She spends her days giving the often-eccentric public valuations on their prints and preparing for sales. She has worked in auction houses ever since leaving University.
What do you do all day?
As a Specialist in Modern and Contemporary Prints I spend a lot of time dealing with the public. People bring in works they are interested in selling and I give them a valuation. Prints can be particularly tricky. With paintings it is easy to tell from a first look if it is a fake or what its value is. Prints offer require more research as it may have been made after the artist’s death or by another hand. This can be a delicate situation as it is often hard to explain to someone the different between a print and a reproduction.
