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The Boston International Fine Art Show gives guests the opportunity to view and discuss historic and contemporary works with gallery owners

The Boston International Fine Art Show gives guests the opportunity to view and discuss historic and contemporary works with gallery owners

The 22nd annual Boston International Fine Art Show will showcase works from 40 galleries worldwide in an intimate event that caters to all tastes and sensibilities. “it’s a small enough show that people can really see everything, and it’s intimate enough that they can talk to the exhibitors and not feel rushed,” says co-producer Tony Fusco of Fusco & Four, which organizes the show. Fusco explains that all of the dealers love to talk with visitors and collectors and share their own appreciation for art. “Avery Galleries looks forward to the Boston International Fine Art Show every year. It’s a great opportunity for us to connect with our clients in New England,” says managing director Nicole Amoroso.

Established dealers will be in attendance, including Avery Galleries, Questroyal Fine Art and William Vareika Fine Arts, as well as galleries new to the Boston show but highly respected in the collecting world, like Betty Krulik Fine Art, Ltd., based in New York, and Parco Fine Art.the show will take place at the Boston Center for the

Arts from October 18 to 21, with a preview gala on the first day from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.the gala gives attendees a first look at works for sale while enjoying food, wine and live music, and all ticket proceeds benefit the Art for Justice Fund, which makes grants to organizations, advocates and artists working to safely reduce jail and prison populations across the country.

“This [is] my first time doing this show, [giving] me the opportunity to show the broad range in which I deal, from 19th and early 20th century American to selected European and post war,” says Betty Krulik.“i’ll be bringing a Rouault, Legrand and Basquiat as well as the American masters, Gifford and Lane in [the] 19th century, and Glackens, Sloan

and Henri in early 20th, and Bluemner and Marin for the modernists.”

The show features a broad range of material, from drawings by the Old Masters to contemporary art, always holding true to that core focus on American fine art. While the show incorporates mostly galleries and dealers, several individual artists will be in attendance as well, including Katherine Houston, who works in porcelain and embodies 17th and 18th century style.and after a long hiatus, Heinley Fine Arts, which was previously based in Boston but is now located in Taos, New Mexico, returns to the show this year with a fascinating group of artists from the New Mexico region.“people really get an eye-opening to all the possibilities of collecting,” Fusco says. As part of the Boston International Fine Art Show’s public programming, American Fine Art Magazine editor Joshua Rose will conduct a one-on-one interview with Evan Beard, national art services executive at U.s.trust, to discuss the topic of art as an investment.

Oscar Florianus Bluemner (1867-1938),Red House Madonna, 1933. Pastel and watercolor on paper, 4 x 31/8 in., inscribed lower center: ‘ul Ver Madonna’; inscribed verso: ‘I paint nature // human nature’. Courtesy Betty Krulik Fine Art, Ltd.

Childe Hassam (1859-1935), Kitty Walking in the Snow, 1918. Oil on panel, 15¾ x 10½ in. Courtesy Questroyal Fine Art.

James Pringle Cook (b. 1947), Aspen Cattails. Oil on canvas, 70 x 60 in. Courtesy Heinley Fine Arts.

John Wilson (1922-2015), Self Portrait, 1943. Oil on canvas, 22 x 20 in. Courtesy Martha Richardson Fine Art.