After years as a private banker at Citigroup in New York and Tokyo, Helen Szaday joined Sotheby's as Managing Director of Financial Services Asia, then moved to Paris for business development and auction expertise. Thirty years in the art market.
Working independently since, She focuses on Asian artists of the École de Paris. Board member of the European Chamber of Art Experts (CEEA), fluent in Japanese, Mandarin and French, compiling a reference dictionary of Japanese artists who worked in France.
She specialises in researching 19th and 20th century Asian artists who studied or worked in France and Europe — reconstructing biographies from primary sources, locating works, and turning incomplete histories into verified, documented knowledge. Detective work as well as scholarship.
