The Commercial Dealer as Patron

Roslyn Oxley9 and Sherman Galleries are currently the two most influential contemporary art galleries in Sydney. This does not mean that in crude financial terms they are the most profitable. The real money comes from acting as a local agent for British-based artists, dealerships, or in reselling works by the old and/or the dead.

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