My friend and mentor, Andrew Ciechanowiecki, who has died aged 91, was a gallery owner and authority on Old Master sculpture. Andrew settled in London in the early 1960s, becoming a director of the newly-founded Mayfair gallery Mallett at Bourdon House and mounting four groundbreaking sculpture exhibitions.
In 1966 he established the London branch of the French Heim gallery, eventually buying out his former partner François Heim. There he held 38 highly successful exhibitions combining paintings and sculptures, mainly from the baroque and neo-classical periods. He sold the Heim Gallery in 1986 and opened the Old Masters Gallery, which closed when he suffered a severe stroke in 1995.
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