Megadealer

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A major, large-scale dealer.

    "Unlike today's megadealers with their constant poachings of high-profile artists whose careers were fostered by smaller galleries — and unlike today's collectors, whose feeding frenzy is driven by fashion and an eye for the auctions — Sonnabend was a kind of incubator, said the photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, who has shown with the gallery since the 1970s."

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"Unlike today's megadealers with their constant poachings of high-profile artists whose careers were fostered by smaller galleries — and unlike today's collectors, whose feeding frenzy is driven by fashion and an eye for the auctions — Sonnabend was a kind of incubator, said the photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, who has shown with the gallery since the 1970s."

Etymology

From mega- + dealer.

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