galleristn.
/ˈɡal(ə)rɪst/, U.S. /ˈɡæl(ə)rᵻst/ 1. rare. A person in a gallery.In quot. with reference to gallery n. 3c.
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1906 Spatula July 722/2 I was in the gallery listening to Madame La Grande's fine singing. Before she got half through with her aria a brother gallerist yawned and yelled aloud: ‘Awfully good, but too d—— long.’
2. A person who owns or runs an art gallery; (in later use also) a person who exhibits and promotes artists' work in galleries or other premises, in order to attract potential buyers.
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1966 Manifestos 30 Robert Filliou, the French poet, inventor and gallerist.
1981 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 66 61 Black Artists is a book of permanent value to students, gallerists, cultural historians, critics, museums and collectors.
1992 N. Cohn Heart of World xii. 156 I don't use the word dealer. I am a gallerist.
1997 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 69 567 Influenced both by gallerists and by foreign and local exhibitions, German criticism moved..to impressionism as the intrinsically modern style.
2002 Independent 26 Sept. 9/5 My role as a gallerist is to make sure that my artists' work is seen around the world.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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