Pia Gallo has been a private art dealer since 1981. Her firm is dedicated to the research, acquisition, sale, and appraisal of fine old master and modern prints and drawings. She has published numerous illustrated catalogues.

Ms. Gallo is a member of The International Fine Print Dealers Association and CINOA, (Confederation Internationale des Negociants en Oeuvres d’Art - International Confederation of Art and Antique Dealers Associations). Pia Gallo has participated in the annual IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, Master Drawings/New York, and The London Original Print Fair.

She numbers many major museums and private collectors throughout the world as clients, notably, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Baltimore Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, The Hammer Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Johnson Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, National Gallery of Art, New York Public Library, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Rijksmuseum, Snite Museum of Art, and Yale University Art Gallery.

THE MAGAZINE ANTIQUES

A great drawing stands on its own merits, but a splendid provenance lends further allure. Private dealer Pia Gallo is exhibiting a subtle ink and wash drawing by the eminent baroque painter Salvator Rosa that embodies both qualities. Rosa must have drawn his Study for the Figure of Scylla in preparation for his racy painting Glaucus and Scylla in the Musées Royeaux des Beaux Arts in Brussels, of which he also made an etching in 1661. It depicts an episode in the Greek tale of the fisherman turned god who falls tragically in love with a maiden. Owned by Sweden’s notoriously intellectual Queen Christina during her Roman exile, the drawing was subsequently owned by the celebrated seventeenth century Roman arts patron Prince Livio Odescalchi.

Barrymore Laurence Scherer

APOLLO MAGAZINE

A sister event to London Art Fair, and coinciding with New York’s Old Master auctions, the ninth edition of Master Drawings New York runs from 24-31 January.

Welcoming around 30 international dealers, the event stages themed exhibitions across more than two dozen galleries on the Upper East Side.

The breadth of the fair is a large part of its appeal; it showcases works from the sixteenth to the present day.

Among the old master highlights are Salvator Rosa’s Study for the Figure of Scylla at Pia Gallo…….

Imelda Barnard

ART NEWS

Making a Great Impression

…..New York-based dealer Pia Gallo also emphasizes the importance of condition. “Buy things in the best possible condition……

Buyers may be intimidated by classifications based on technique and edition size, but experts say it isn’t that difficult to grasp the technical aspects and the terminology of printmaking or to learn the basic guidelines about what to look for in the image itself.

Eileen Kinsella