auctioneer call i first heard about the zaks collection from konstantin akinsha and andrei vassiliev. from the very beginning, the story seemed hard to believe. we wanted to understand how paintings of such dubious origin could be sold as genuine works, and how did they end up on the walls of museums all around the world 7 one painting from the zaks collection unexpectedly appeared in a scene from christopher nolan's oppenheimer. a few months later, the same painting turned up in anotherfilm, the wonderful story of henry sugar by wes anderson. 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