Olivia kwok biography

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Willscape Partners was created by Olyvia Kwok, our comprehensive art market knowledge and years of experience enable us to provide clients with expert perspectives to help them make key decisions with the utmost assurance.

We specialise in services ranging from finance & acquisition to portfolio management & art valuation

• MANAGEMENT & VALUATION

  Established in 2011 to address the need for expertise and advice in art as an alternative asset class.

• CAPITAL

  Third party auction guarantees for art collections as well as individual

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  Olyvia Kwok didn’t exactly tiptoe meekly into London’s art world — but she’s learned from her mistakes, she tells Michael Watts.

  In June 2014, Sotheby’s issued a High Court writ for £3 million plus interest against the purchaser of two paintings for which it had not been paid. The artworks — Water-Worshipper by Jean-Michel Basquiat, with a price tag of £2.49 million, and Idilli by Cy Twombly (£386,500) — had been bought by a London art dealer for a European based in Hong Kong; allegedly, this individual then defaulted on the payment, sticking the purchaser with the bill.

  The art world is no stranger to such litigation, but the story made headlines because of the dealer’s exotic identity. She was a young and glamorous Chinese woman named Olyvia Kwok, born in Beijing, the granddaughter of a Red Army general. Unfriendly newspaper descriptions insinuated that hers was the brazen, acquisitive face of the new China.

  In fact, Kwok had arrived in Britain at the age of twelve without knowing a word of English, but her precocious rise through Europe’s art and social scene disco

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  About Willscape Partners

  For over 15 years, Willscape Partners have been collecting, investing and valuing art.

  Since our foundation, the firm has specialised in art as an alternative asset class. Our in depth art market knowledge, extensive global network, and years of experience enable us to provide clients with expert perspectives to help them make decisions with confidence.

  • Management

    Working to meet the dynamic requirements of investors.

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  • Capital

    Launched in 2016, we specialise in third party auction guarantees.

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  • Partners

    Focusing on acquiring high level impressionist and post-modern art

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  With years of experience, alongside in-depth knowledge of the market and an extensive global network, Willscape Partners continues to be one the most prestigious and successful firms in the industry.

  Biography

  For over 15 years, Olyvia Kwok has been collecting and investing in art. After graduating from Queen Mary’s University in 2002 with a degree in BSc Statistics, Olyvia opened her very first gallery in St. Jam