Market preview: A celebrated dealer's furniture goes on sale, featuring a chair with a distinguished provenance, and Paris holds its annual Salon du Dessin.(THE ART MARKET: NEWS, ANALYSIS AND PREVIEWS FOR COLLECTORS)(Tom Devenish, France)

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Tom Devenish was of the one legendary characters of the antiques trade. Cantankerous, difficult, sometimes very funny, he was famous for throwing people out of his Madison Avenue shop or not letting them in if he didn't like the look of them. Even Gianni Versace was not spared. When he was pointedly not invited back to the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, he simply set up shop at the nearby Connaught Hotel, sending men in sandwich-boards to stand in ...

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