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The Park Gallery

The Park Gallery has been trading on Connaught Street for 15 years and has built up a worldwide reputation for sourcing and handling artwork of exceptional quality.

The gallery is run by Robin Start, a thoroughly engaging art dealer whose elegant and professional manner befits the store’s demeanour. Start travels the world acquiring a range of works – from 18th century to early 19th British paintings and prints to country house pictures and 19th century Orientalism to Modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art.

As an extensive traveller in the Middle East, he has come to recognise that it is a quickly growing field with a recent surge in both interest and prices.

The Park Gallery,on behalf of its private and institutional clients, undertakes restoration,framing and conservation,as well as providing export papers and valuations for related services and also liaises with museums on loans and exhibitions.

Robin says:“The Middle East and North Africa is seeing a rise of contemporary artists who draw their inspiration not only from international sources but increasingly from improving teaching and local influences and are now beginning to benefit from a fast emerging and demanding market for their works.”