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Christopher Henry Gibbs (born 1938) is a British art dealer.
Early life and education
He was the fifth son of Hon. Sir Geoffrey Cokayne Gibbs KCMG and his wife Helen Margaret Leslie CBE JP, and the grandson of Herbert Gibbs, 1st Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon. His elder brother is Sir Roger Gibbs. He was educated at Eton College, from which he was expelled, Stanbridge Earls School and the University of Poitiers.
Career
A style leader in 1960s Swinging London, his friends included The Rolling Stones, John Paul Getty, Jr., Lord Rothschild and later Bob Geldof.
In 1968, Gibbs introduced two of his friends to each other, Prince Rupert Loewenstein, then working in London as a merchant banker, and The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger. Loewenstein became the Rolling Stones' business adviser and financial manager from 1968 until 2007.
Gibbs was the set designer on the 1970 film Performance, directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, and starring James Fox and Mick Jagger.
In 2000, Gibbs reluctantly sold the Manor House at Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire, a house that had been built for his family in the 1840s. Christie's auctioned off the contents over two days.
As of 2011, Gibbs is living in Tangier, Morocco.
References
- ^ "Christopher Henry GIBBS". Debrett's. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- "Off school". The Telegraph. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- ^ Mason, Christopher. "AT HOME WITH: CHRISTOPHER GIBBS; A Parting Embrace For a Lifetime's Quirks". New York Times. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- Prince Rupert Loewenstein obituary by Adam Sweeting, theguardian, 22 May 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- Gibbs, Christopher. "Christopher Gibbs opens his Diary". The Spectator. Retrieved 25 May 2014.