Date: Fri 02-Jul-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: JUDIR

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Art Dealers Association Goes Online

NEW YORK CITY -- The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), the nation's

leading art galleries, has established a cooperative virtual fine arts

exhibition space on the Internet known as Fine Arts Market Online.

Fine Arts Market Online will be located on the organization's established

Website at www.artdealers.org.

It debuted in June with a wide selection of more than 90 works. Visitors to

the site will be able to view paintings, drawings, sculpture and prints from

all periods offered for sale by member galleries.

Among the highlights are an engraving by Albrecht Durer from David Tunick,

Inc.; a John Singer Sargent oil portrait from Richard York Gallery; a bronze

nude by Edgar Degas from Peter Findlay Gallery (a cast from the edition is in

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York); and a wintry box construction by

Joseph Cornell from C&M Arts.

Collectors interested in purchasing art through Fine Arts Market Online will

be able to deal directly with the individual gallery, on the same secure and

confidential basis as a client in the gallery. More than 30 galleries are

participating. Soho dealer Ronald Feldman is showing both known and

experimental work by such artists as Roxy Paine, Leon Golub, Ida Applebroog

and Andy Warhol.

"The Internet seems to be attracting people with open minds seeking

information. We'd like to see if they are interested in the contemporary art

we have to offer," notes Feldman.

Member galleries, specializing in Impressionism, German Expressionism, Latin

American, European and American painting, are also participating, with works

by Pierre Bonnard, Kathe Kollwitz, Francisco Toledo, Jean Dubuffet, Martin

Johnson Heade and many other major and emerging artists. The value of each

work on Fine Arts Market Online ranges from approximately $1,000 to seven

figures. Each work will be offered up to 60 days.

Founded in 1962, ADAA is a non-profit organization of the nation's leading

dealers in works of fine art and has 152 member galleries in more than 25 US

cities.