Jojo Moyes: Shopping on The Saleroom, my lockdown habit
06 February 2023 Author Jojo Moyes sifts through UK auctions online when she isn't writing bestselling fiction.
Author Jojo Moyes admits to her habit: Shopping on The Saleroom.
Author Jojo Moyes has revealed that she spent the long days of lockdown shopping on TheSaleroom.com.
On Monday, January 24 she told The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 that she developed “an addiction” to the platform.
She said: “I started collecting antique paintings under the umbrella title ‘Women who have had enough of your sh*t’ and it’s just basically pictures of women looking despairing or grumpy.”
She's had enough: a 1930s painting of a young woman by Bruno Breil (1888-1953), which went under the hammer at Grisebach, and is now in the collection of Jojo Moyes.
She has posted some of her collection on her Instagram account, starting last June when she shared an image of a woman in a pink and black period dress.
Many of the works she features on social media appear to be 19th century or modernist paintings. One, which she pictured last July, was a 1930s painting of a young woman by Bruno Breil (1888-1953), which went under the hammer at Grisebach the month before.
Another was an Art Nouveau School oil on canvas portrait of a woman in a yellow dress, which was offered in a Reeman Dansie timed online sale last May.
An Art Nouveau School oil on canvas portrait of a woman in a yellow dress which was offered in a Reeman Dansie timed online sale last May. It is now in the collection of Jojo Moyes.
However, she added that she had also bought older works for her collection.
“Some of them are absolutely beautiful in ornate frames, 300-year-old oil paintings and some are scrappy little things,” she said. “But nobody wants them because nobody wants a grumpy woman judging them and I just found them hilarious.”
The author has written more than 15 books, including Me Before You, which was adapted into a Hollywood film. She was on the radio promoting her latest title Someone Else’s Shoes.
Moyes' latest title, Someone Else's Shoes.
She added that she recently moved into a new home and has interior decorating plans for her purchases: “I’m going to create a wall, a really intimidating wall of disappointed and grumpy women.”
