NEW YORK, NY.- The Winter Antiques Show, America’s leading art, antiques, and design fair featuring 70 renowned experts in fine and decorative arts from around the world, returns to the Park Avenue Armory in New York City for its 64th year from Friday, January 19 to Sunday, January 28. The 2018 edition features special curated booth presentations and 2018 loan exhibition, Collecting for the Commonwealth/Preserving for the Nation: Celebrating a Century of Art Patronage, 1919-2018, celebrating a century of art patronage at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, VA (VMFA). Highlights of the loan exhibition include objects made by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Lalique, Jean Schlumberger, Paul Storr, and Fabergé, as well as paintings by Robert Henri, George Stubbs, John Singer Sargent, Berthe Morisot, Willem de Kooning, Eastman Johnson, Childe Hassam, Max Pechstein, Vincent van Gogh, and Beaufort Delaney.
On Thursday, January 18, the Show welcomed New York’s art, antiques and design community, museum leaders, philanthropists, and socialites to its annual Opening Night Preview Party, a festive evening spotlighting premier works of art dating from antiquity to present day.
On Thursday, January 25, the Show hosts the annual Young Collectors Night at the Winter Antiques Show for more than 700 young philanthropists, new collectors, interior designers, and art and antiques enthusiasts. More than 100 designers and influencers serve on the Night’s Interior Design Committee, chaired by Wendy Goodman. Renowned fashion designer Zac Posen, Creative Director of Brooks Brothers Women’s Collection, is Honorary Chair of Young Collectors Night.
The Winter Antiques Show presents an eclectic showcase of works of supreme quality, rarity and authenticity from the world’s top experts in the fine and decorative arts, with over half of exhibitors specializing in American art and design. These exhibitors’ displays range from folk art to contemporary American realism, and feature works by some of the nation’s leading artisans and creative luminaries over two centuries, including Louis Comfort Tiffany and John Singer Sargent. Other collecting areas include jewelry, paintings, drawings and sculpture, Asian art, antiquities, books, autographs, maps, manuscripts, prints, design, arms and armor, folk art, tribal and oceanic art, Pre-Columbian art, portrait miniatures, rugs, carpets, textiles, photographs, silver, ceramics, glass and Fabergé.
A committee of 160 experts from the United States and Europe vet each object exhibited at the Winter Antiques Show for authenticity, date and condition. The strict vetting regulations and the expertise of the vetting committees ensure that buyers can purchase with confidence.
New Exhibitors for 2018
The following seven new exhibitors join the distinguished roster returning in 2018: Hirschl & Adler Modern (New York), Jason Jacques Gallery (New York), Lillian Nassau LLC (New York), Lobel Modern (New York), Spencer Marks (Southampton, Massachusetts), Galerie Anne-Sophie Duval in collaboration with continuing exhibitor Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz (Paris), and, most recently, Menconi + Schoelkopf (New York), specialists in American art with a focus on works created between 1800 and 1950. Returning to the Show after a oneyear hiatus are Peter H. Eaton and Joan R. Brownstein (Newbury, Massachusetts).
