FINE ART FIT FOR THE SEASON
AT INAUGURAL ART AND ANTIQUE DEALERS LEAGUE OF AMERICA
SPRING SHOW NYC (APRIL 28 - MAY 2) AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY

Louis Valtat Le Jardin Fleuri a Choisel Schillay Fine Art, New York

NEW YORK -- A picture may be worth a thousand words, but we'll keep it brief: the inaugural Art and Antique Dealers League of America (AADLA) Spring Show NYC, which welcomes art and antiques collectors to the Park Avenue Armory from April 28 - May 2, 2011, will offer a host of fine artworks that are sure to entice the eye, April showers notwithstanding.

Spring comes early with La Maison de Marie-Louise au Printemps, by French Impressionist Henri Martin, from Schiller & Bodo. The painting's fresh colors and textural surface artfully replicate the shimmering light of Southwest France. French Fauvist Louis Valtat's Le Jardin Fleuri a Choisel from Schillay Fine Art offers another sun-soaked breath of fresh air. Questroyal Fine Art showcases the American Southwest instead with Thomas Moran's Red Rock, Arizona (Coconino Pines and Cliff, Arizona) (1902), an exquisite example of the artist's Western oeuvre. From Vojtech Blau comes a modernist Aubusson tapestry, IXE (1971), designed by Alexander Calder in bold primary colors. Meanwhile, a blithe composition by American Modernist Milton Avery, Ping Pong Players (1944), catches two figures at play, their yellow and blue forms juxtaposed against a lilac-hued game table. Look for it at the booth of Thomas Colville Fine Art. Jack Kilgore, presents Fritz Von Uhde's Les Chiens Savants (The Performing Dogs), and Brock & Co. offers an ode to New York's Lower East Side, with Rainy Day, Canal Street, New York City (c. 1890s) by Alexander Theobold Van Laer (1857-1920). At Kendall Collection, Hillside (c. 1910) an oil on canvas by Ernest Lawson (1873-1939) is featured.

Gregorio Lazzarini Judith and Holofernes c. 18th century Robert Simon Fine Art, New York

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Prairies au board de l'eau, 1870 Daphne Alazraki Fine Art, New York

Alluding to T.S. Eliot's quote in "The Wasteland" that April is the cruelest month, several works capture the moodiness of the season. Daphne Alazraki Fine Art has an extraordinary canvas by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Prairies au bord de l'eau (1870). The brooding landscape, with figures in the foreground hunched beneath scraggly trees and a cloud-streaked sky, is one of the best examples of the Barbizon School of Art on the market today. From the same period is Eugène Louis Boudin's Bordeaux, bâteaux sur la Garonne (1874-76), the ship's clustered masts jutting up from the river's steely waters. For something more climactic,Robert Simon Fine Artserves up a striking, large-scale work by Italian Baroque master Gregorio Lazzarini, Judith and Holofernes (c. 18th century) The painting's dark subject matter - the beheading of the general Holofernes by femme fatale and heroine Judith - is rendered here with operatic intensity. The Hill- Stone Gallery has another piece with a story to tell, Mucius Scaevola (c. 1795) by Italian artist Luigi Ademollo. The drawing depicts the bravery of a young Roman who stands up to an invading tyrant.

Other fine art specialists include: Abby M. Taylor Fine Art, Avery Galleries, Engs-Dimitri Works of Art, Holster Fine Art and Rehs Galleries.

With a roster of sixty-five top specialists from all over the United States, the AADLA Spring Show NYC - at the heart of New York's Art & Antiques Week - will offer something for every collector's taste, whether scholarly or decorative. Visitors will be lured into the Armory's grand exhibition hall with a dramatic mise-en-scene created by interior designer and tastemaker Lars Bolander, the Swedish designer recognized for his signature style of mixing the old with the new

ABOUT AADLA
The Art and Antique Dealers League of America, Inc., is the oldest and principal antiques and fine arts organization in America. The purpose for organizing the league was to bring the various members of the art and antiques trade closer together to promote a greater understanding among themselves and with the public, and generally to devote itself to the best interest of dealers and collectors of antiques and works of art.

ABOUT 1STDIBS.COM
1stdibs.com, the Spring Show NYC sponsor, is an online luxury marketplace that presents a carefully curated selection of highly coveted items from the most prestigious dealers in high-end antiques, 20th- and 21st-century design, estate- and fine-jewelry, vintage couture, and fine art. Founded in 2001 by Michael Bruno as a way to bring Parisian flea market finds to the world, today the site now lists over 2,000 new items each week, totaling over 100,000 pieces annually and sells everything from Venetian windows to classic Eames furniture.

ABOUT ASPCA
Founded in 1866, the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) is the first humane organization established in the Americas and serves as the nation's leading voice for animal welfare. One million supporters strong, the ASPCA's mission is to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States. A 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit corporation, the ASPCA is a national leader in the areas of anti-cruelty, community outreach and animal health services. The ASPCA, which is headquartered in New York City, offers a wide range of programs, including a mobile clinic outreach initiative, its own humane law enforcement team, and a groundbreaking veterinary forensics team and mobile animal CSI unit.

GENERAL INFORMATION
The Spring Show NYC opens with a benefit preview for the ASPCA, at the Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue and 67th Street, on Wednesday, April 27, from 5:00 to 7:00 PM by VIP invitation or $250 at the door. After 7 PM admission is $75 and the preview continues to 9:00 PM. All proceeds from preview tickets go to the ASPCA. The Honorary Co-chairs of the Connoisseurs Committee are Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. The Committee co-chairs include: Michael Bruno, Mario Buatta, David Patrick Columbia, Celerie Kemble, Brian McCarthy, Miles Redd, Ellen and Chuck Scarborough, Michael Smith, Bunny Williams, and Vicente Wolf. 

The show opens to the public on Thursday, April 28. Hours are Thursday, April 28: 11:00 AM to 7:30 PM; Friday, April 29: 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM; Saturday, April 30: 11:00 AM to 7:30 PM; Sunday, May 1: 11:00 AM to 7:30 PM; and Monday, May 2: 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM. General admission is $20 per person; a five-day pass is $40 per person.

Arts' Night Out, celebrating New York's Art and Antiques Week with young new collectors, is slated for Friday, April 29, from 5 - 9 pm. The $30 ticket available at the door includes that day's admission to the AADLA Spring Show NYC plus beer, wine and ABSOLUT cocktails beginning at 5 pm. Arts' Night Out is sponsored by Doyle New York, Antiques and Fine Arts Magazine, and ABSOLUT Vodka. For additional information, visit springshownyc.com.

ABOUT THE ART FAIR COMPANY
The Art Fair Company, founded by Michael Franks, the former COO of dmg world media, and Mark Lyman, Founding Director of the Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fairs (SOFA), now produces SOFA fairs in Chicago, New York and Santa Fe, the leading contemporary decorative art and design fairs in the world. They also produce The Intuit Outsider and Folk Art Fair, in Chicago. The company also provides professional promotional and operational support to other art and antique fair producers.