ART DEALER AND CONSULTANT GARY SNYDER DISCUSSES "THE FIVE PAINTINGS I WOULD BUY IF I HAD YOUR MONEY" AT RAGO AUCTIONS ON MAY 5 AT 6 PM

Lambertville, NJ:  The Rago Arts and Auction Center hosts an open house on Tuesday, May 5 featuring art dealer Gary Synder speaking on, “The Five Paintings I Would Buy if I had Your Money,” at 6 p.m.

Art dealer and consultant Gary Snyder discusses different ways to approach buying art at auction, and “walks” the audience through our upcoming sale with thoughts and suggestions.

Gary Snyder is an art consultant and private art dealer in New York City. An art dealer for over thirty years, Snyder opened his first New York gallery in 1991 and quickly established himself as an authority in the field of modern American art. In galleries in SoHo, Midtown, and, most recently, Chelsea, Snyder explored a wide range of American art from the 1920s through the 1960s.

Mr. Snyder has helped clients build collections, including the J. Donald Nichols collection of American abstract art of the 1930s and 1940s, the Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Zissu collection of Abstract Expressionism (which sold at Sotheby's), and other important collections ranging from early American Modernism through Minimalism, Pop and Hard Edge painting of the 1960s.

A wine and cheese reception begins at 5 p.m. Mr. Snyder's talk begins at 6 p.m. RSVP to 609.397.9374, ext. 119 or raac@ragoarts.com. If you are unable to rsvp in advance, please join us if you can. All are welcome.

Sponsored by Chubb Personal Insurance.

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About Rago Arts and Auction Center

Rago is a leading U.S. auction house with $30 million in annual sales. It serves thousands of sellers and buyers yearly with a singular blend of global reach, personal service and competitive commissions for single pieces, collections and estates. Rago holds auctions of 20th/21st c. design, fine art, decorative arts, furnishings, jewelry, Asian, militaria, coins and currency, silver, historic ephemera, and ethnographic property. Rago also provides a range of appraisal services conducted by USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice) compliant appraisers, performed to the highest standards set by the IRS, insurers and the Appraisers Association of America. Rago is located in New Jersey, midway between New York City and Philadelphia.

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