Launch for Dealers: 36 Portraits of Toronto’s Art Dealers by Viktor Mitic

Thursday, December 10, 2009
6:00pm – 10:00pm
Odon Wagner Gallery
198 Davenport Road

In this remarkable portrait-survey of thirty-six of Toronto’s most distinctive and influential art dealers, artist Viktor Mitic has captured and illuminated the unique individual personalities of his subjects. Depicting by turns their passion, insouciance, vivacity, shrewdness, eccentricity, geniality, and more, these portraits successfully reflect the rainbow of human emotion and expression.

As Gary Michael Dault says in his insightful introductory essay, “there isn’t a portrait here that doesn’t provide not only a fine likeness of its subject, but also a telling, charming, incisive route into the sitter’s essential nature.”

The portraits will be on display at the Odon Wagner Gallery (198 Davenport Rd) from Dec 11 to 24.