“Art auctioneers are only human or so it’s said, and they and their staff are as prone to making mistakes as the rest of us. But how did the international saleroom Christie’s manage to list a painting by Ray Crooke for its art auction tomorrow night that it sold in August to Australia’s biggest-spending dealer, Denis Savill?” The new catalog lists the painting with a different title than the one it had when Savill purchased it, but all sides agree that it is the same work. This isn’t the first time that Savill has had a problem with Christie’s: the auction house “previously ‘mislaid’ three paintings he had bought at various auctions, and… recovering them took nine months in one instance and two years in another.”