Dealers, 1911-1994

This subseries contains correspondence between curators and dealers, including galleries and auction houses, regarding the provenance, prices, and purchasing negotiations of objects. The letters with dealers in New York and London, especially the Brummer Gallery and Spink & Sons, Ltd., document early collecting efforts of the department. These dealers offered objects from the collection of Sir Howard Carter and the Kelekian family. Correspondents also include H. Berggruen, Galerie du Sycamore (Paris), Andre Emmerich, K. J. Hewitt, J. and R. Khawam, Ernst Kofler, Mathias Komor, Marianne Maspero, Marguerite Mallon, William Mansoor, and F. and P. Tano.