Boucher emerges at £34,000

WITH London’s Master Drawings week looming in July, specialist dealers were predictably out in force to contest this long-lost François Boucher (1703-1770) drawing which re-emerged at the Oxford rooms of Mallams (15% buyer’s premium) on May 7.

This 13 x 9 1/2in (33 x 24cm) black and white chalk drawing had been discovered under glass in a 19t…

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