ART DEALERS:Who are they?

UNDERSTANDING THE ART WORLD

ART DEALERS

There are as many different types of dealers as there are types of art to collect.

These are a few of the major types or categories of art dealers.

Primary Market Dealers

Secondary Market Dealers

Private Dealers

Consultants

What do Art Dealers Do?

ART DEALERS

Primary-Market Dealers

A Primary Market Dealer is the first dealer to find the artist. They look for new talent and advance the careers of living artists.

These dealers regularly visit artists' studios and participate in art fairs.

Primary Market Dealers

Storage areaNotice the way the paintings are stored.

The art hanging in a gallery is often a small portion of the art it owns or is offering for sale.

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Primary Market Dealers

Primary Art Dealer:The dealer who takeschances on artists who haven’t established a reputation. The Primary Market Dealer usually knows the artist personally.

Secondary-market dealers are some of the experts you see on T.V., examining the work with an eyeglass and telling the owner whether it is genuine or a fake.

They deal with collectors, institutions, and can work for auction houses like Christies and Sotheby’s.

Secondary Market Dealers

Secondary Market Dealers

They are usually the ones who handle the transfer of art works on behalf of collectors and institutions, so in the real world they usually CAN tell if it's a fake, forgery, or masterpiece.

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game online - fromAntiques Roadshow web site.

Secondary Market Dealers

Often Secondary Art dealers specialize in a particular period and their expertise equals or even surpasses that of art historians in museums.

These dealers are the recognized experts on the artists or periods they represent, and

They are the people in the art world who museums contract to write important catalogues or consult on works of art.

JanVerMeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher (about 1662) The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889.

Private Dealers

Dealers who choose to operate on an appointment-only basis are often able to serve clients on a more personalized basis.

Private dealers can be distinguished from auctioneers

and art consultants because they own the works of art

which they show by appointment only. Not everyone gets to see

these art works

Private Dealers

A good dealer has a serious commitment to their areas of expertise and can advise collectors in everything from the purchase of a single work to the formation of an entire collection.

Consultants

Art consultants are trained to help inexperienced collectors navigate the somewhat confusing gallery scene.

Consultants

Unlike dealers, consultants do not own or hold actual works of art, but work purely on a commission basis (paid by seller or buyer -

sometimes both) They can do the legwork for

collectors too busy to make the rounds of galleries

Art Dealers

Primary Market Dealers

Secondary Market Dealers

Consultants

You have to have an appointment with this Dealer. Their gallery is sometimes also their home.

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Private Dealers

Art Dealers

This dealer is also a gallery owner or manager. They help artists and give them advice. They are the first ones to realize the artist’s potential.

Primary Market Dealers

Secondary Market Dealers

Private Dealers

Consultants

Primary Market Dealers

Art Dealers

These dealers don’t own the art, and aren’t usually specialists. They will help you through the process of buying and selling if you’re interested in starting a collection.

Primary Market Dealers

Secondary Market Dealers

Private Dealers

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Art Dealers

When the National Museum of Art needs someone to locate a painting to fill out their collection of expressionist sculpture, they call one of these dealers.

Primary Market Dealers

Secondary Market Dealers

Private Dealers

Consultants

Secondary Market Dealers

Art Dealers

These Art Dealers are the ones you see on “Antiques Roadshow”.

Primary Market Dealers

Secondary Market Dealers

Private Dealers

Consultants

Secondary Market Dealers

Art Dealers

This dealer has a storage room full of original art by living artists besides the public gallery full of art.

Primary Market Dealers

Secondary Market Dealers

Private Dealers

Consultants

Primary Market Dealers

UNDERSTANDING THE ART WORLD

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