Jill Newhouse, a New York dealer with a gallery on East 81st Street, is a veteran of Master Drawings New York, having taken part for many years.
But she has also made the trip across the Atlantic every year since 2004 to stand at the other major annual drawings event, the Paris Salon du Dessin. As such, she is someone with a good overview of both. Defining the two, Newhouse says: “MDNY is a dealer-organised, in-gallery event designed to bring new and established clients into galleries (some for the first time) for exhibitions and private events.
“The Salon du Dessin is a dealer-organised public event where clients can see different galleries side by side, allowing the visitor a different context in which to see the artwork. Here one might be able to see several works by Delacroix, for example, with different presenters, framed and priced differently. During MDNY the visitor sees one gallery’s selection at a time.”