"The accounts cite a number of risk factors to the health of the art market including the “overall strength and stability of the global economy” and Brexit." / " Increased red tape from Brexit is “adversely affecting” Sotheby’s ability to move art between the UK and Europe..."

Exit from the single market making it harder to import art, auction house warns.

Hall, like many trade observers, see how difficult it has become for Sotheby’s and Christie’s to present high quality evening sales of Old Masters in post-Brexit London in both June and December.