Art Gallery owned by art dealer John Klejman

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A simple Google search on JJ Klejman turns up several interesting articles concerning art from European colonies. photo: Fowl, Nigerian, Court of Benin, NGA, provenance:Reportedly Benin City, Nigeria, before 1897.[1] (J.J. Klejman Gallery, New York)

Besides Harry Sperling another of my favorite dealer-smugglers was John J. Klejman. He and his wife owned an elegant gallery on Madison Avenue and 76th Street opposite the swank Carlyle Hotel, devoted to antiquities, both Greek and Roman and Byzantine.

J. J. Klejman Gallery

August 6, 2019 - The dealer my father did most business with was John J. Klejman, whose gallery, next to the old Sotheby’s Parke-Bernet on Madison Avenue, always had a security guard at the door. Klejman was a bit of an enigmatic figure. If you google him, he is described as “legendary” because he was such a groundbreaker in the world of African and Oceanic art.

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☐ N the basis of the ratio of its floor area to the qual- ity of the objects exhibited there, the finest single gallery in or out of a museum in New York must be the J. J. Klejman window at 982 Madison Ave- nue, just below 77th Street.

January 31, 2022 - The female idol is distinctive ... smuggled out of the country and then soon found its way to the J.J. Klejman Gallery in New York....

Klejman, John J. (1906-1995) ... Klejman was a New York-based art dealer, owner of J. J. Klejman Gallery. The gallery opened in 1950 and closed in 1974.

December 21, 2024 - Besides Harry Sperling another of my favorite dealer-smugglers was John J. Klejman. He and his wife owned an elegant gallery on Madison Avenue and 76th Street opposite the swank Carlyle Hotel, devoted to antiquities, both Greek and Roman and ...

May 24, 2025 - Klejman came to this country in ... had a gallery. In his place of business he has more the air of a curator than a merchant, even a merchant on the astral plane of rare antiquities. As an art dealer he takes great pride in the objects he has placed in various museums, and as a man with a museum of his own, 8 feet by 2, he also takes satisfaction in his title of Benefactor of a larger one, the Metropolitan, a designation that he has held for just a year this month. ... J. J. Klejman arranging ...

John Jacob Klejman in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Immigration Cards, 1900... ... As is true of many African ceremonial objects that have come into the hands of Western collectors, the origins of this wakemia are obscure before it came to the J.J. Klejman Gallery in New York. The Klejmans specialized in African art, and their gifts, and those of their daughter, Susanne Klejman Bennet ’59, make up a large part of the Davis’s African collection.

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September 20, 2017 - Susanne Klejman Bennet: Various Rockefellers---JD, Nelson. Henry Ford. The one I liked best was Greta Garbo. Eric Maria Ramarque---and I have a letter from him somewhere. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor. By the time he ---whom I did not like---by the time he went back to having some decorative art again, porcelain and things. Just about anybody who collected art in the States ended up in [the gallery]. The de Menils became clients during that period.

As a curator I bought works that today would be impossible under the UNESCO Treaty forbidding the acquisition of pieces with no solid pedigree. In the Sixties I hardly gave a thought to provenance or national laws against exportation. In fact I loved dealing with illicit works of art · Besides ...

July 20, 1990 - The Metropolitan argued at the time that it legitimately and innocently acquired the works through a series of gifts and purchases, principally from two dealers, John J. Klejman of New York and George Zacos of Switzerland.

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