April 21, 2008
On the artist-gallery relationship
On Friday, the dealer and prolific blogger Ed Winkleman noted recently two published items, one in the New York Times and one on an artist's blog, that discuss the severing of artist-dealer relationship. He added his own commentary:
"Every dealer knows each of his/her artists personally, and the good ones do feel sorry when things don't work out and try to ease the transition as best they can. Every artist understands that leaving their gallery will be difficult for them (it will can cause the gallery to have very unhappy collectors who were on waiting lists and lots of unpleasant questions to answer all the way around), and the considerate artists do leave as gently as they can. Believe me, this is much more humane than the way such partings are handled in other businesses, and that fact that it is such a big deal (as evidenced by the two pieces noted above) reflects well on the way business is done in general in the art industry in my opinion."
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