art dealer
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3.8
- noun
- /ɑrt ˈdiːlər/
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marchante de arte
- Mr. Reblack is a world-renowned art dealer.
- art dealers and collectors
- art dealers and museums
- art dealers and curators
And and this friend was an art dealer who showed him.
- And and this friend was an art dealer who showed him.
- And she or her business was originally their first business was an art dealer, the CIA.
Examples
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Jeffrey Bergen is an art dealer who owns a gallery in New York.
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And if you allow me, of course, I could show these to some very prominent art dealers.
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All the big art critics and art dealers would be there; it would be an event.
Fiction book (1995) -
Sent some of my paintings to a London art dealer.
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I know several art dealers who would be begging at her door.
Fiction book (1995) -
He's actually an art dealer in Paris.
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He traveled between Paris and Moscow as an art dealer.
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Bruno is a Swiss art dealer in his 40s.
Fiction book (1996) -
In 2001, Marilyn Alsdorf, now widowed, seeks to sell Femme en Blanc through a Los Angeles art dealer.
Academic text (2006) -
Among the evidence was a letter from an art dealer confirming the purchase of a statue.
Synonyms
How Established
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who buys and sells works of art' is directly and compositionally derived from 'art' (artistic creations) + 'dealer' (person who sells goods) following a common noun–noun compound pattern. This straightforward modifier relationship is cross-linguistically frequent and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The noun art dealer comes from the simple picture of a market dealer who buys and sells art, traveling to fairs and galleries and arranging sales. So today art dealer means 'a person who buys and sells works of art' and often has a good eye for what is valuable.