They are part of the gallery's inventory; they are not on exhibit.
"My partner was in Syria; the gallery's inventory and artworks were there, and the artists were there.
Meanwhile, Debra Force, director of Beacon Hill, said she planned to sell the gallery's inventory, which consists of a few hundred American paintings, privately.
She really is so very busy — e-mailing jpegs of artwork to collectors, writing news releases, updating a gallery's inventory or simply ordering lunch for the staff.
There is general agreement among those in the modern-masters field that the purchase is a major coup, although there is also the certainty that the gallery's inventory is not what it would have been 15 years ago.
After nearly 50 years Mrs. Riordan decided to sell her gallery's inventory and the contents of the apartment above the shop that she shares with her husband, Arthur Riordan.
He made headlines almost immediately by saying that he would not rule out the possibility of selling works from his own huge personal art collection or his former gallery's inventory during his directorship, in order to meet financial obligations in New York, where he still owns two buildings in SoHo and rents art-storage warehouses.
Sure, the Frank Lloyd Wright chair, Frank Gehry barstools and Alexander Calder brooches are all impressive design objects, but they represent only a small fraction of the gallery's inventory.
In "The Chuting Gallery," McLean inventories the hazards of his favorite routes with a cheek that, in the solemn and superstitious realm of mountain chronicles, borders on blasphemy.
The legal claims by Ms. Corse and Mr. Valentine both cited a California law that says that consignments by artists of their own work should be held in trust and "not be subject to claim by a creditor of the consignee". In other words, there is a difference in California between gallery-owned inventory and artist consignments.
