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List of art dealers

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A visit to the Art Dealer by Frans Francken the Younger, early 1600s

This is an incomplete list of significant art dealers:

  • Guillam Forchondt the Elder (1608–1678): A 17th-century Flemish Baroque painter and art dealer based in Antwerp. He established an important art dealing business with international connections in Europe maintained by his extended family. He originally trained as a painter and cabinet maker but built a reputation through his international art business. His children became art dealers who settled in various cities in Europe such as Venice, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Linz, Passau and Cadiz where they supplied an elite clientele with a variety of art objects. When in the 1670s Flanders suffered a severe economic downturn due mostly to an invasion by the French, Guillam Forchondt and his brother Melchior the Younger became art entrepreneurs by hiring lesser painters to create group projects such as large commissioned copies of famous works or large decorative objects. At one point, the Brothers Forchondt had 60 painters in service for export to France, Austria, Spain and Portugal.[1]
  • Matthijs Musson (Antwerp, 1598–3 November 1678): A painter and art dealer based in Antwerp, who helped popularize artists of the 17th century Antwerp school by marketing them throughout Europe.[2] Many of his correspondences have been published and studies of his business relationships with other dealers across Europe have established ideas about the art trade and its economics.[2][3]
  • Edith Halpert (1900–1970): Halpert was born in 1900 in Odessa, arrived in the U.S. as a penniless Russian Jewish immigrant and grew to become a pioneering New York City art dealer, transforming the landscape of Modern art. Over her forty-year career from 1926 through the 1960s, Halpert brought recognition and market success to many avant-garde American artists. Her establishment The Downtown Gallery, one of the first in Greenwich Village, introduced and showcased many modern art luminaries. Halpert died at age 70 a multimillionaire, with Sotheby's crediting her with having put modernist painting auctions on the map. The posthumous sale of her collection by Sotheby's went for $3.6 million in 1973.[5]
  • Klaus Perls: Perls (1912–2008) was born and raised in Berlin. He studied art history in Munich, but was forced to finish his education in Basel, Switzerland, as the Nazis were no longer allowing degrees for Jews. He ran Perls Galleries for over 60 years. His gallery dealt with contemporary American artists, modern works from the School of Paris and Mexican and South American art. Perls also developed an interest in art from Benin and built a sizable collection. He was not only an art dealer, but also a donor as he contributed many significant works of art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He died June 2, 2008, in Mount Kisco, N.Y. at age 96.[6]
  • John Weber (1932–2008): Weber was born in 1932 in Los Angeles. He was a radio corpsman in the Navy during the Korean War before receiving a bachelor's degree from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1958. As a contemporary art dealer, Weber was ahead of his time as he was one of the early promoters of Conceptual Art, Post-Minimalist sculpture and Italian Arte Povera. He was the director of several galleries throughout his career and helped organize shows that featured big names such as Robert Indiana, Richard Long and Andy Warhol. Weber died May 23, 2008, in Hudson, N.Y. at age 75.[8]

Other notable art dealers

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References

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  1. ^ Guilliam Forchondt in the RKD
  2. ^ a b J. de Maere, Jennifer A. Martin, and Marie Wabbes. Illustrated Dictionary of 17th Century Flemish Painters. Brussels: Renaissance du livre, 1994; p. 294. ISBN 2-8041-1858-4
  3. ^ Neil De Marchi, Hans J. Van Miegroet and Matthew E. Raiff, "Dealer-Dealer Pricing in the Mid Seventeenth-Century Antwerp to Paris Art Trade", in Michael North and David Ormrod, Art Markets in Europe, 1400–1800, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998; pp. 113–130. ISBN 1-84014-630-3
  4. ^ Dealer Arne Glimcher Thinks Art Market Is `A Little Bit Crazy' - Bloomberg.com
  5. ^ Sandra (2020-06-01). "Rediscovered Women Artists: Edith Gregor Halpert". American Women Artists. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  6. ^ Grimes, William (2008-06-05). "Klaus Perls, Art Dealer Who Gave Picassos to the Met, Dies at 96". New York Times. Archived from the original on 12 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
  7. ^ Bauver, Robert (Spring 2007). "ATADA Lifetime Achievement Awards – Antique Tribal Arts Community Honors Its Own". ATADA News. Antique Tribal Arts Dealers Association, Inc. Archived from the original on 2009-07-18. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
  8. ^ Smith, Roberta (2008-06-01). "John Weber, 75, Contemporary-Art Dealer, Is Dead". New York Times. Archived from the original on 12 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
  9. ^ Bellamy, Richard (1963). "Oral history interview with Richard Bellamy, 1963". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved February 1, 2009.
  10. ^ Stone, Noted Art Dealer and Collectors, Dies at 74,ISSN 0362-4331.
  11. ^ "Vasari Diary: On John Gibson (1933–2019), Rob Wynne, Jane Benson, Robert Murray, and Film Forum". 15 March 2019.
  12. ^ Smith, Roberta (8 April 2020). "Paul Kasmin, Gallerist Who Ruled a Mini-Empire of Art, Dies at 60". The New York Times.