Lucy mitchell-innes biography

Lucy Mitchell-Innes and David Nash were uniquely positioned to start a business with a plan for the future. As former heads, respectively, of Sotheby's contemporary and Impressionist and Modern art divisions, the pair has extensive experience working with blue-chip names.

When they transitioned into the realm of private dealing, their years working in the secondary market proved crucial to understanding how to shape artists’ legacies.

It was Mitchell-Innes who left the auction house first, in , and began to work with the conservatorship of Willem de Kooning, who had a body of work and no dealer.

Mitchell-Innes & Nash | Art in Chelsea, New York - Time Out

“I had two young children, Josephine and Isobel, and the job at Sotheby’s required a tremendous amount of travel. I felt it was best to start my own business,” she recalls. David followed suit two years later, and the pair started the gallery that&n