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Jacopo Ligozzi, “Allegory of Gluttony,” dated 1590, pen and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with gold on yellowish brown prepared paper; 121/16 by 715/16 inches. Courtesy Jean Luc Baroni Ltd.

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George Romney (1734–1802), “Study of a Gentleman,” pencil and ink wash. Courtesy W/S Fine Art Ltd/Andrew Wyld.

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MASTER DRAWINGS FAIR TO RETURN TO NYC JAN. 18–26 w/2 cuts

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NEW YORK CITY — Sixteen of the world’s leading drawings dealers will hold coordinated exhibitions January 18–26 at this year’s Master Drawings New York, which again will enable collectors and curators to see fine works dating from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries.

Based on the successful Master Drawings London, launched in 2001, the second Master Drawings New York will provide connoisseurs with the chance to buy works at prices ranging from the affordable to the highly covetable at shows within walking distance of one another on the city’s Upper East Side.

Margot Gordon, the New York-based dealer who organizes the event with Crispian Riley-Smith, will exhibit Italian drawings of the Sixteenth to late Twentieth Centuries. Highlights include a red chalk preparatory study from the mid-1590s by Cavalier D’Arpino for one of his frescos in the Sala Maggiore del Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome, and an oil sketch by Bernardo Strozzi for his painting “Allegory of Charity,” which has been dated to the 1620s.

Crispian Riley-Smith will be exhibiting Eigthteenth and Nineteenth Century Dutch School drawings and watercolors, which make up his special focus exhibition this year. A fine example of in this genre is “A Winter Landscape with Skaters.”

David Tunick is presenting a rare classic Cubist drawing by Gris, the Spanish painter and draftsman, which has not been on the market for at least the last half century.

Marianne Elrick-Manley is presenting further Twentieth Century works. Highlights include Wilfredo Lam’s 1946 “Cor de Pêche,” and one of a series of strongly geometrical mask studies by Julio Gonzalez.

Dickinson will display “Portrait of the Infant Daughter of Admiral Walker, Commander of the Turkish Fleet” by Sir David Wilkie, RA.

W/S Fine Art Ltd/Andrew Wyld, who will be crossing the Atlantic from London to take part in Master Drawings New York for the first time, will exhibit a stunning George Romney sketch.

For additional information, www.MasterDrawingsInNewYork.com or 212-755-8500.