The International Fine Print Dealers Association concluded  its annual IFPDA Print Fair at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City on Sunday, November 8, and reported an enthusiastic response from both exhibitors and close to 10,000 visitors, who attended throughout the run of the fair. This year's edition featured 89 exhibitors presenting rare masterworks and new-to-market editions by leading contemporary artists, spanning over 500 years.

"The Fair's record-breaking Preview really set an exuberant tone that flowed through the entire weekend. There was a lot of excitement and energy and we were delighted to see a surge of interest from a new generation of collectors," states IFPDA Executive Director Michele Senecal." Our exhibiting dealers understand the importance of serving as a knowledge base in this medium for new and seasoned collectors alike."

The 2015 IFPDA Print Fair opened on Wednesday, November 3 with press and VIP previews followed by a preview benefit to support its Foundation, which provides grants to museums and cultural institutions worldwide to support a greater awareness of prints as an artistic medium.

Nearly 2,400 guests enjoyed the private reception and first view of the Fair on Wednesday evening. Guests of note included Kiki Smith, Ryan McGinnis, Jane Hammond, Alexis Rockman, James Siena, Lesley Dill, Robert Kushner, Nicola Lopez, Susan York and David Rowe, among many other artists whose work was also on view. Glenn Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Christoph Cherix, Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, Jack Soultanian, Conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nadine Orenstein, Drue Heinz Curator in Charge of the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lisa Fischman, Director of Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, Christian Rattemeyer, Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art, Judy Hecker, Assistant Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, at the Museum of Modern Art, Sarah Suzuki, Associate Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at the Museum of Modern Art, David Kiehl, Curator of Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Gail Davidson, Curator and Head, Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; as well as Jordan Schnitzer, Nelson Blitz, Jane Krakowski, Leslie and Johanna Garfield, Robert and Anna Marie Shapiro, and Marlene Hess.

A consistent flow of visitors continued through the close of the fair on Sunday, November 8. Exhibitors reported strong private sales as well as major museum acquisitions. Of the significant sales, a few notable highlights include: Alan Cristea Gallery sold works by every artist on view and called this year's Print Fair, "the best fair we've ever had." One of their most notable sales was Jim Dine's 2015 Left-handed Woodcut to a museum. Susan Sheehan Gallery had to rehang their booth twice after selling a complete suite of nine color lithographs from Frank Stella's 1964 Purple Series to a museum, two Andy Warhol Flowers priced at $80,000 to a private collector and a museum, all of their Robert Indiana editions, as well as a 1964 lithograph by Ellsworth Kelly titled Blue and Orange. Mary Ryan Gallery sold a 1984 Robert Longo lithograph to a major museum, six lithographs from Frank Stella's Benjamin Moore series to an institution, and one Robert Gober print to a museum.

Other Contemporary and Modern sale highlights include: Diane Villani Editions sold a 1970's work by Dieter Roth titled Isländische Landschaft I (Icelandic Landscape I), Nicolas Africano's The Shadow from 1979, two works by Ida Applebroog, and John Baldessari's Hegel's Cellar: Cagney. Carolina Nitsch sold a set of twelve etchings by Thomas Schütte to the Cleveland Clinic and a large group of twenty-five monoprints by Philip Taaffe to a major financial institution. Osborne Samuel Ltd. sold two color proofs and the final definitive print from Speed Train by Cyril Powers priced at $150,000 to a private collection. Durham Press, Inc. sold a suite of ten Hurvin Anderson Mirror: Don't Look Back prints to the Detroit Institute of Arts.  Carl Solway Gallery sold a set of Nam June Paik's Sonata from 1996. Robert Brown Gallery sold several works by William Kentridge. The Getty Museum acquired a John Constable work from 1836 from Gerrish Fine Art. Paris-based Gallery A & D Martinez sold Abraham Bosse's Louis XIII et Hercule, two works by Marc Chagall, and two works by Henri Matisse. Goya Contemporary sold thirteen works by Jo Smail, numerous works by Soledad Salamé, and other pieces by David Brown, Etel Adnan, Sally Egbert, and Ellsworth Kelly. Sims Reed Gallery sold nearly all of Harland Miller's hand-painted prints made specifically for the occasion.

In addition to the brisk sales reported by Modern and Contemporary dealers, several high-priced acquisitions were reported in the Old Master category. David Tunick, Inc. sold a rare 16th century engraving, The Sword Pommel of Maximilian by Albrecht Durer, one of the reported few in existence andRembrandt van Rijn's The Descent from the Cross among other notable sales to museums, dealers, and an assortment of international collectors. A partial list of sales for Hill Stone, Inc. included Children's Games, a color lithograph by Edouard Vuillard, a rare engraving by Albrecht Dürer, a suite of 16th century engravings and etchings depicting the four seasons after designs by Pieter Bruegel and Hans Bol, and Abraham Entertaining the Angels by Rembrandt van Rijn, all to museum collections.

Reports from the IFPDA Print Fair exhibitors were extremely positive with many of them noting the influx of more international and national collectors and curators along with a younger group of collectors emerging.