Description: Through a range of case studies, this book challenges male-dominant art market history by exploring how female dealers worked to promote international art and acted as key agents in the development of the modern global art market.
Brief description: Véronique Chagnon-Burke is an art historian, co-founder of Women Art Dealers Digital Archives, co-chair of The International Art Market Studies Association, section editor for the Art Market Dictionary, and former Director of Christie's Education in New York (2002-2021).
Review Quotes:
"Important for starting a conversation on how and why women were dedicated to promoting innovative art and artists ... A strong start to addressing gender imbalance in an emerging field of art history." --The Art Newspaper
"At a moment when art worlds are finally addressing gender inequalities, this timely volume highlights the crucial role that women art dealers played in shaping modern art markets." --Olav Velthuis, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands "This insightful book provides us with 17 detailed portraits of daring and innovative women art dealers and modern art pioneers all around the world, crucially filling a gap in art-market history by focusing on female agency and risk-taking." --Julie Verlaine, Professor of Contemporary History, the University of Tours, France "With its 19 thoroughly researched case studies, this fascinating book makes an important contribution to the study of the achievements of women art dealers in the latter half of the 20th century, filling existing gaps in our understanding of the vital role women have played in the art market." --Nadine Oberste-Hetbleck, Director of ZADIK Central Archive for German and International Art Market Studies, University of Cologne, Germany