art dealer
Sells paintings professionally
An art dealer is a person or business that buys and sells works of art, typically operating a gallery or working privately with collectors.
Dealers may specialize in particular periods, styles, or artists: She found the painting through a dealer who specializes in Impressionists.
The term can suggest commercial savvy alongside aesthetic knowledge—dealers profit from identifying undervalued work and connecting it with buyers.
- booksellerLiterature retail merchant
- galleristGallery business operator
- provenanceRecord of ownership
- auction houseFirm conducting competitive sales
- consignmentBatch delivered for selling
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- dealers
- creativespainter, painters, illustrators, designer, graphic designers
- vendorsstreet vendors, seller, hawkers, merchant, peddler
- art businessgalleries, auction houses, collectors, auction house, collector
- art marketauction, limited editions, editions, original prints, hammer price
- art tradegallerist, auction house, auctioneer
art dealercurator
Collection overseer
museum curator · gallery curator · conservator · museum director · archivist
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