With the country edging out of a recession, a newly elected Democratic president wrestling with a huge deficit, and art buyers seemingly sitting on their hands, the Palm Beach Post sent a reporter to John H. Surovek’s Worth Avenue gallery to ask him how he, and collectors in the well-invested but deeply illiquid town, were coping with what the Post’s …
Dealer Profile: David Lavender
One of the surprises of the huge Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé sale this past February was the splendid selection of objets de vertu the two men had gathered for their twentieth-century Kunstkammer. The way in which this assemblage contravened recent trends in collecting was on my mind as I waited to see the London dealer David Lavender, whose …
Dealer Profile: Jeff Bridgman
Something weird happened to Jeff Bridgman and his business in 2008—in fact, two weird things. In the midst of a global economic collapse, he had his best year ever, and in December, he made a large sale to a Democrat. “To the best of my knowledge, it was the first time I’d ever made a major sale to a Democrat,” …
Dealer Profile: Sumpter Priddy III
How Sumpter Priddy III became a preeminent antiques dealer
Asia Week Highlight: A conversation with Joan B. Mirviss
A conversation with veteran dealer Joan B. Mirviss
A new setting for Iliad Antik
On the new Iliad Antik gallery
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