38 19th June 2010 master pictures ATG’s Who’s Who of the
IT is in the nature of commerce that stock will come and go, but where fine art is concerned the dealers and their expertise are what keep the clients returning year after year.
ABBOTT and Holder have been run by only four directors since 1936 – it is now run by Philip Athill – and have
cultivated a house style demonstrating that both beautiful and interesting works on paper, both drawings and watercolours and prints, are within the reach of most incomes. Their four-storey building in Museum Street, opposite the British Museum, is stocked with a diverse international range of works, and for Master Drawings Week will be hung with no fewer than four exhibitions.
FOUNDED in 1817, Agnew’s is one of the most renowned and prestigious international dealers. Their specialisations
include Old Master Drawings, British Watercolours and 20th Century British drawings.
They have participated in Master Drawings Londonsince its inception in 2001 and also show at the Salon du Dessinin Paris and the major art fairs in New York and Maastricht. Gabriel Naughton is the Old Master Drawings specialist and is on the committee of Master Drawings London.
CRISPIAN Riley-Smith has been working in the art market since 1989 and principally sells Old Master drawings from 1500 to c.1900.
In the last few years he has also been in dealing in contemporary pictures. Part of Master Drawings London, in January he also participates in Master Drawings New York. Crispian advises clients on a number of areas in the market. These include bidding at auction, buying from dealers and
valuations for IRS, for the Canadian Cultural Heritage, for insurance and for other tax purposes.
He also works as a consultant to Bonhams auctioneers for their Old Master Drawings.
One of the main objectives of Master Drawings Londonin its tenth year is to introduce a wider public to this aspect of the London art market. Here are the faces behind the gallery windows.
Day and Faber are essentially private dealers offering their clients, both buyers and sellers, complete discretion.
In 1970, Richard Day, a partner at Sotheby’s and head of the Old Master Drawings Department, set up as a private dealer at 14 Old Bond Street in the heart of London’s art world. His main areas of expertise are Italian drawings from the 15th to the 17th centuries and works of the Dutch 17th century. In 1994, James Faber joined the gallery. His particular interest is in French drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries.
THE Didier Aaron gallery has evolved over three generations as a family firm and is now headed by Hervé Aaron. It is based in Paris, New York and London, dealing in fine and decorative arts of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries and caters to an international clientele of private collectors, renowned decorators and curators from major museums. Didier Aaron participate at fairs including TEFAF Maastricht, the Biennale des Antiquaires, and the Salon du Dessin in Paris, and regularly organise exhibitions.
The London gallery, on the third floor at 15 Clifford Street, is run by Marc Fecker and has participated in Master Drawings Londonsince its inauguration in 2000.
EMANUEL von Baeyer London was founded in 1998 and deals principally in fine European drawings, rare prints and selected paintings from the 15th to 19th centuries.
Emanuel conducts his business from an office in St Johns Wood. His clientele includes older and younger
generations of private collectors, art historians and
museum curators from institutions around the world. He regularly participates in the London Original Print Fair, the Master Drawings events in London and New York and TEFAF Maastricht. He has held exhibitions in various galleries in Munich, Berlin and New York, and is a member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) and The Society of London Art Dealers (SLAD).
MANHATTAN-based Hill-Stone are private dealers in prints and drawings from the 15th century to the early years of the 20th century. Founded more than 30 years ago by Alan N. Stone in Northampton, Massachusetts, the firm moved to New York in 1980. Lesley Hill is the other principal.
Institutional clients include, among many others, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and the Musée du Louvre. Hill-Stone are members of The International Fine Print Dealers Association (
www.ifpda.org), Private Art Dealers Association (
www.pada.net), CINOA (
www.cinoa.org), and the Paris-based Chambre Syndicale de l’Estampe, du Dessin et du Tableau.
They exhibit annually at the Winter Antiques Show, Works on Paper, the International Fine Art Fair, Master Drawings London, and The Print Fair. In London, they will be exhibiting at The Fine Art Society in New Bond Street.
JAMES Mackinnon started his own business in 1967 after working for a long- established dealership in London. Since the 1980s he has worked as a private dealer.
He has been an exhibitor at fairs in Europe, including TEFAF Maastricht, and in the United States where he has also held exhibitions of paintings in a New York gallery. His wide interests have concentrated particularly in the period 1780 to 1860,
encompassing the development of painting and drawing in the period that has been described in France as being
“between the past and the present”. This includes both neoclassical and romantic works of the English, French, German and Italian schools in painting and drawing, both landscape and figure subjects. The development of the plein air oil sketch has been a particular interest. Works have been sold to many museums worldwide.
JEAN-Luc Baroni belongs to the third generation of a family of connoisseur art dealers. The family business first opened in Paris in 1919, and moved to Florence in 1967. In 1982, Mr Baroni went into a 20-year partnership with the eminent British
firm Colnaghi. He now works with his daughter, Novella Baroni, from his gallery in St James’s, London. Mr Baroni has long been established as a specialist in fine paintings and drawings by Old and Modern Masters. The gallery hold regular exhibitions, produce
substantial, fully researched and illustrated
catalogues and participate in a number of international art fairs, including TEFAF Maastrichtand events such as Master Drawings Weekin London and in New York. Alexandra Chaldecott, who worked in the Old Master Drawings department at Sotheby’s for more than a decade, contributes to the team.
JOSÉ de la Mano Galería de Arte has 15 years of experience specialising in Spanish Old Master drawings. His mission is to promote the
underrated Spanish tradition of
drawing in a field where many international
Crispian Riley-Smith
Gabriel Naughton
Philip Athill
Emanuel von Baeyer Photo: Robert Glowacki
Marc Fecker
James Faber
Richard Day
Lesley Hill
Alan N. Stone
José de la Mano
Novella Baroni
Jean-Luc Baroni
James Mackinnon
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