megadealer
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]megadealer (plural megadealers)
- A major, large-scale dealer.
- 2009 February 26, Leslie Camhi, “The Seer”, in New York Times[1]:
- Unlike today's megadealers with their constant poachings of high-profile artists whose careers were fostered by smaller galleries — and unlike today's collectors, whose feeding frenzy is driven by fashion and an eye for the auctions — Sonnabend was a kind of incubator, said the photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, who has shown with the gallery since the 1970s.