Martin Levy will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Monday, January
28, at 12:15 pm. His talk is entitled “A Lifetime in the Art Market: A View
from the ‘Dark Side.’”
This talk will address ways in which the art market has changed, and not
changed, over the past century. It will center on the history of H.
Blairman & Sons, and how over the generations the firm’s role has evolved
beyond simply buying and selling works of art. Based on personal experiences,
the talk will examine how the art market can, and ideally should, advise
museums, teach institutions and government-sponsored committees, and look after
its customers. Suggestions will be made about how to become involved in the
market and pitfalls will be discussed.
Martin Levy is the director of H. Blairman & Sons, which deals in
eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century English and French furniture and works
of art. Levy has lectured in the UK and US and has contributed
articles, exhibition reviews, book reviews, and letters to numerous
publications including the Decorative Arts Society Journal, Apollo,
Metropolitan Museum Journal, and Furniture History.