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The Specialist | The Art of Seeing: Two Brueghel Discoveries, with George Wachter

The Specialist | The Art of Seeing: Two Brueghel Discoveries, with George Wachter

Update: 2025-09-16
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This is an episode of The Specialist, producing by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's.


On today's episode, George Wachter, Sotheby's Americas Chairman, and Co-Chairman of Old Master Paintings Worldwide, takes us back over 50 years to the start of his career to tell the tale of the discovery of two remarkable Brueghel paintings, hidden in plain sight — one at the back of a wardrobe.


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The Specialist | The Art of Seeing: Two Brueghel Discoveries, with George Wachter

The Specialist | The Art of Seeing: Two Brueghel Discoveries, with George Wachter

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