It was such a blinding failure The chairman of Christie's, talking for the first time since the trial of the head of Sotheby's, admits he knew that the two companies were colluding to fix charges. And, Lord Hindlip says, he had no doubt it would end in disaster

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: March 3, 2002| Author: HELENA DE BERTODANO | Copyright information

In the 40 years Lord Hindlip has spent working for Christie's, he has seen many changes - but none more remarkable, perhaps, than the near-thousandfold increase in his salary. "When I started I was paid pounds 6 a week," he tells me. "About pounds 320 a year. Plus Luncheon Vouchers." And now? "I don't know . . . about pounds 300,000. It depends whether it's a good year or a bad year."

As chairman of Christie's International, Hindlip no longer gets Luncheon Vouchers; but on the day we m...

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