Frederick Mulder
Director
Dr Frederick Mulder CBE, LL.D. was born in Canada, but has lived in the UK since 1968. He was educated at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada (BA, English), at Brown University, USA (M.A, PhD, Philosophy), and at Oxford University. He is considered to be one of the world's experts in the field of 19th and 20th century European prints, and particularly in the work of Picasso and Munch.
He is Chair of Frederick Mulder Foundation, which provides support for a wide range of social change issues as well as support for the arts. He is also the Founder of The Funding Network, an innovative organisation based in London that arranges live crowd-funding events to support social change projects, and which he has helped start in several other UK cities and in nine other countries.
He was made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) by the Queen in the New Year Honours 2012.
He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Saskatchewan in June 2017.
Anne-Françoise Gavanon
Director
Anne-Françoise has been working closely with Dr Mulder since 2007 and loves working with prints as they require so much technical knowledge and connoisseurship. She is particularly fond of prints by Edvard Munch, which endlessly surprise her. Based in London, her expertise is dependable, and her clients include major museums such as MoMA and the British Museum, as well as private collectors. She is listed as an éminence grise in Spear’s 500.
Alongside her professional responsibilities, Anne-Françoise has worked as an independent art historian since 2016 and was commissioned catalogue essays by French national museums for their Picasso exhibitions such as « Sans toi je ne peux rien faire et sans moi tu ne peux rien faire ». Arnéra, Picasso et la linogravure for the Réunion des Musées Nationaux. In 2021, she curated Picasso linocuts: drawing in colour at the Remai Modern, a Canadian museum, and in 2023 was interviewed for Picasso. The Beauty and the Beast, a 3-part BBC documentary in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the artist's passing.
From 2019 to 2023, Anne-Françoise was a Member of the Board of the IFPDA – International Fine Prints & Drawings Association. And on a more personal level, she has been a supporter of AWARE - Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions, Paris, whose aim is to restore women artists in the history of art.
Anne-Françoise studied Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London and graduated with an MA in Modern Art with Merit in 2004. She first graduated in Economics with a diploma from a Paris business school followed in 1993 by a post-graduate diploma in Economic Transition in Central & Eastern Europe.
Prior to redirecting her career towards the Arts, Anne-Françoise was an investment banker specialising in M&A for nine years during which she was based in Budapest, Warsaw, Bucharest and finally London. Her calling for the art world developed whilst visiting Eastern European artists' workshops and re-acquainting herself with the great European museums which she visited with her father as a child.
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