DAVID NORMAN JOINS PHILLIPS AS CHAIRMAN OF THE AMERICAS

Art adviser David Norman, an expert in modern and Impressionist art and a former Sotheby’s stalwart of over thirty years, has been named the new chairman of the Americas for Phillips in New York. He is expected to strengthen the company’s market share in the modern and postwar departments. The position is effective immediately.

Norman was previously vice chairman of Sotheby’s North America and world chairman of the auction house’s Impressionist and modern art department. During his tenure, he led the 2004 auction of Pablo Picasso’s Garçon a la Pipe, 1905—the first painting to ever sell for more than $100 million—and the sales of Alberto Giacometti’s Walking Man I, which was conceived in 1960 and cast in 1961, and Edvard Munch’s The Scream, 1895; the two works were the first sculpture and the first work on paper, respectively, to exceed the same price.

Norman also directed the company’s first sales of twentieth-century German art and the first post-unification auction in Berlin in the early 1990s and curated its first private selling exhibition of modern art in Hong Kong and Beijing. In 2017, he left his post at Sotheby’s to establish the art advisory firm David Norman Fine Art, LLC.

“While consulting for Phillips during the past few years, I realized that I love being part of a team—and this is the team I’d love to be a part of,” Norman said in a statement. “Phillips is a 220-year-old company with the spirit of a start-up, and I couldn’t be more excited to be a part of the next chapter in the company’s growth story.”