After coffee, I wandered up the aisle with galleries selected by Norman Rosenthal, including The Gallery of Everything in Chiltern Street which is showing rather fascinating late nineteenth-century pots by George E. Ohr, a potter from Mississipi who was rediscovered in the sixties by an antique dealer called Jim Carpenter and sold to the likes of Jasper Johns, who depicted them prominently in his paintings:-

Next door is Waddington’s wonderful reconstruction of Peter Blake’s studio showing the rich cornucopia of his obsessive collecting:-

We’re doing an exhibition of Oceanic art next year, so I was pleased to see the work shown by Galerie Meyer in Paris.   A Kapkap:-

I hadn’t known (nor is it apparently referred to in our exhibition) that Matisse went to French Polynesia in 1930.

Before I sign off, I strongly recommend Emanuel von Baeyer’s stand which this year, as last, is exemplary, including such unexpected pleasures as a picture of Georges Braque in his studio in September 1944 and – I’m fascinated to see – the preparatory drawing by Philip Core of his Chance Meeting of Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp which is in the Arts Council Collection:-