i'm beatrice gimpel and i'm swiss and i'm partly french through marriage, but i've lived here in london in the uk for 49 years — 49 very happy years. my parents, especially my father, were very interested in paintings and sculpture and from the mid—late �*60s, early �*70s on, he bought extensively anything he liked. and he did a lot of his homework inviting, talking to artists, so there was no doubt that what he bought was always first class. and after he died, when we had the first inheritance meetings, when one of the experts said that a whole range of paintings were dubious... ..we were absolutely shocked and we didn't believe it to start with. so i'm currently sitting on flight 317, london to zurich, to go and look at the paintings which were willed to beatrice by her parents, and my role, really, is to just see if the doubts that beatrice had are in any wayjustified. tell me about the lissitzky — how you acquired it and what sort of emotions it brings forth in you. so this was my grandfather who acquired it more than 20 years ago and i've been fortunate enough that the family lets