Giuseppe Eskenazi
Turkish art dealer
Intro | Turkish art dealer | |
Places | Turkey | |
is | Art dealer | |
Work field | Arts Business | |
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Giuseppe Eskenazi (born 1939, in Istanbul) has been described as the world’s most important dealer in Chinese works of art. His company, Eskenazi (art gallery), has sold to more than eighty of the world’s major museums, as well as numerous private collectors. He opened a London office in 1960, originally buying for his family's antiques business in Milan. In 1993 he opened their current gallery in Mayfair, London. In 2012, he published ‘A Dealer’s Hand: The Chinese Art World Through the Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi’. He speaks six different languages.