Pioneers of the Global Art Market

Christel H. Force is an independent scholar, formerly Associate Research Curator in Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2005-2018). Prior to this, she held positions at The Museum of Modern Art (1990-2005) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Force obtained an art history degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, completed her MA at McGill University in Montreal, was a fellow of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (Curatorial), and received her PhD in 2001 from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her areas of expertise are Impressionist and modern art, the history of collecting, the historical art market, and Holocaust-era provenance. Force frequently contributes to international conferences and symposia; she is a founding member of The International Art Market Studies Association, a trustee of Christie’s Education New York, and a Steering Committee member of the German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program for Museum Professionals.

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1. Introduction: Pioneers of the Global Art Market: Paris-Based Dealer Networks, 1850-1950, Christel H. Force (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA)

2. Parisian Dealers and the American Market, 1860–1920, Paolo Serafini (Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy), translated by Angelica Modabber

3. Old and New Worlds: Durand-Ruel and the International Market for Impressionism, Jennifer A. Thompson (Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA)

4. Moving Mountains: Paris-Based Dealers and the Economics of Translocation, David M. Challis (Melbourne University, Australia)

5. Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler’s International Partnerships, 1907-1937, Vérane Tasseau (Independent Scholar, France), translated by Celia Abele

6. Promoting Modernism in the 1920s: The Art Journals of Paul Guillaume, Léonce Rosenberg, and Alfred Flechtheim, Ambre Gauthier (Marc Chagall Foundation, Paris, France)

7. Paul Guillaume, Marius de Zayas and African Arts: A Transatlantic Partnership, 1914–1923, Yaëlle Biro (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA)

8. The Thannhauser Galleries: Forming International Alliances in an Era of Change, Valerie Nikola Ender (University of Cologne, Germany)

9. “A Viking sailing over the savage sea, far, far to the north”: Walther Halvorsen, Christel H. Force (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA)

10. When French Dealers “Turned their Eyes Towards Scandinavia”: The Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet in Stockholm, Christina Brandberg (University of Loughborough, UK)

11. The Galerie Paul Rosenberg and the American Market in the Interwar Era, MaryKate Cleary (New York University, USA)

12. International Dealer Networks and the Market for Impressionism in London and Glasgow: Etienne Bignou, A.J. McNeill Reid, and Ernest Lefèvre, Frances Fowle (University of Edinburgh, UK)

13. Etienne Bignou: The Gallery as Antechamber of the Museum, Christel H. Force (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA)

14. Capricious Cohorts: René Gimpel’s Associates, Rivals, and Patrons Diana J. Kostyrko (Australian National University, Australia)

15. Valentine Dudensing and the Valentine Gallery: Selling the US on the School of Paris, Julia May Boddewyn (Independent Scholar, USA)

16. Conclusion, Veronique Chagnon-Burke (Christie’s Education, New York, USA)

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