Date: Fri 27-Mar-1998

Publication: Ant

Author: CAROLL

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Wintermute

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Wintermute at Christies

NEW YORK CITY -- Christie's has appointed Alan Wintermute to the position of

senior specialist in the Old Master paintings department.

Wintermute's responsibilities will include assisting Christie's clients with

buying and selling at auction, conducting appraisals, researching property and

cataloguing several sales each year.

In this capacity, he will be an integral part of Christie's team of Old Master

paintings specialists, led by Anthony Crichton-Stuart.

A recognized authority on Eighteenth Century French art, Wintermute served as

a consultant for Christie's successful Arts of France sale in the fall of

1997. During the last year, he has been a guest curator of the forthcoming

exhibition "Watteau and His World: French Drawings from 1700-1750," a major

traveling exhibition being organized by The American Federation of Arts,

scheduled to open in the fall of 1999 in New York.

A respected art historian, he began his professional career in 1984 as the

assistant director of Stair Sainty Matthiesen Gallery in New York. From 1987

until 1996, he was a director of Colnaghi USA, a leading gallery of Old Master

paintings. He organized a series of acclaimed exhibitions, including: "1789:

French Art During the Revolution" (1989), "Claude to Carot: The Development of

Landscape Painting in France" (1990), and "The French Portrait, 1550-1850"

(1996). The catalogues for these exhibitions, published by the University of

Washington Press, have become standard reference works.

Educated at Vassar College and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York

University, he also has taught art history and lectured and published widely

in journals as diverse as Apollo, Master Drawings, Flash Art and The New York

Times. Since 1993, he has been a member of the Commissioner's Art Advisory

Panel of the Internal Revenue Service.