Careers: Art Dealer

The art world is now an extremely lucrative industry. Records for art, whether contemporary, modern or impressionist, are being broken at auction houses across the world all the time. Contemporary artists now demand huge fees for their works and travel the world working on commissions and putting on shows. Art dealers are a very important asset to todays leading artists; they help to develop artists, sell their works into high profile galleries and collections and make sure that the artists can concentrate on being creative. In these films, leading art dealer Michele Dsouza offers an insight into the contemporary art world. She offers advice to those who want to work in the art world and speaks about her love of art.