What Is An Art Dealer?
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An art dealer helps clients, gallery owners, museum curators, and artists find the art they are looking for. Oftentimes, they own and run a gallery of their own, or they work from their home. Some dealers have a formal art education, but others don’t—it’s not mandatory.
What an Art Dealer Does
A good art dealer has an extensive knowledge of art, art history, and art trends, and has developed many connections that help them buy and sell art or act as a broker. They either acquire art and sell it to collectors, gallery owners, or museums, or they bring art buyers and sellers together.
Common Factors of Great Art Dealers
To be successful as an art dealer, you should have the following:
A Love of Art
Art dealers may specialize in one type of art, such as modern, classical, pop art, sculptures, or collages. It is their love for a particular art style or genre that fuels what they do. When the dealer loves the art they are featuring or buying it’s easier to be enthusiastic and the business will flow naturally.
An Eye for Art
An art dealer also has an eye for line, form, color and great art versus mediocre art. They know their clients and what they might like. So the dealer will acquire what they think their particular market will enjoy. A good art dealer will develop a sharp eye for high-quality artwork.
An Entrepreneurial Spirit
Art dealers are also business people. They have an entrepreneurial spirit that makes it possible to come up with creative, strategic ideas to create a profit with art and to help clients find the art they desire. If they own a gallery, they must learn to market their art and to develop all of the skills necessary to run a business.
Art Dealers & Connections
Art dealers cannot perform their best work without a wide network of connections with other art dealers and people looking for the art they specialize in. If you meet an art dealer at an exhibit, auction house, or gallery, they are likely part of a national or local art dealer association.
Contact Zimmerman Fine Art Today!
Since 1979 Zimmerman Editions Ltd. has worked closely with many internationally acclaimed artists to execute editions of their most unique images. Collaborating directly with the artists, Zimmerman Editions’ atelier has printed, fabricated, and published many special limited editions of fine art, including both prints and sculptures. All images have been faithfully produced to meet the artists’ most exacting requirements. Many of these high-quality art prints and objets d’art are represented in public and private collections around the world.
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