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Meanings
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art dealer; picture dealer; commercial art gallery
Refers to a person or business that buys and sells artworks, especially paintings. Can also mean the gallery itself as a commercial entity.
He deals with a famous art dealer.
An exhibition was held at a commercial art gallery in Ginza.
Usage patterns
- 〈人〉が画商を営むfor someone to run an art-dealing business
He has been running an art-dealing business since his father's generation.
- 画商に絵を売るto sell a painting to an art dealer
The painter sold the picture to an art dealer.
- 画商から絵を買うto buy a painting from an art dealer
She bought an old oil painting from an art dealer.