Stair Sainty Gallery specializes in French, Italian, and Spanish 17th- to early 20th-century painting, and also handles occasional exceptional examples of sculpture. The gallery values trust and connoisseurship, and practices rigorous scholarship.
< Stair Sainty was founded in 1982 by Guy Stair Sainty, an author and expert on 18th- and 19th-century French painting, and has been a specialist gallery at the heart of the art market for more than 20 years. After two decades in a townhouses in the Upper East Side of New York, the gallery’s exhibition space is now an 18th-century townhouse at 38 Dover Street, Mayfair, London.
The gallery is a member of the Syndicat National des Antiquaires, has exhibited at the Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris and exhibits annually at The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), Maastricht.
Stair Sainty assists both institutional and private clients with individual paintings and in building collections. We help our clients in the acquisition, sale, appraisal, conservation, and documentation of works of art while offering a discretion, thoroughness, and guarantee unavailable at the auction houses.
The gallery has sold paintings and sculpture to more than 50 museums worldwide.
