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This insightful book provides us with 17 detailed portraits of daring and innovative women art dealers and modern art pioneers all around the world, crucially filling a gap in art-market history by focusing on female agency and risk-taking. * Julie Verlaine, Professor of Contemporary History, the University of Tours, France * At a moment when art worlds are finally addressing gender inequalities, this timely volume highlights the crucial role that women art dealers played in shaping modern art markets. * Olav Velthuis, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands * With its 19 thoroughly researched case studies, this fascinating book makes an important contribution to the study of the achievements of women art dealers in the latter half of the 20th century, filling existing gaps in our understanding of the vital role women have played in the art market. * Nadine Oberste-Hetbleck, Director of ZADIK | Central Archive for German and International Art Market Studies, University of Cologne, Germany *

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Véronique Chagnon-Burke is an art historian, co-founder of Women Art Dealers Digital Archives, co-chair of The International Art Market Studies Association, section editor for the Art Market Dictionary, and former Director of Christie’s Education in New York (2002–2021). Caterina Toschi is Associate Professor of contemporary art history and history of photography at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy. She is co-founder of Women Art Dealers Digital Archives and Senzacornice, and Associate Director of the Santa Maddalena Foundation.

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