Questroyal Fine Art Blog Blog

Questroyal Fine Art Blog

Louis M. Salerno, Owner

Gallery owner Louis M. Salerno was an avid American art collector long before he established Questroyal Fine Art. His personal experiences as a collector influenced his business model: the gallery only sells what it owns, believing that the commitment of its capital is the true measure of conviction.

Questroyal Fine Art, LLC is an established New York art gallery that specializes in important 19th- and 20th-century American paintings. Our diverse inventory includes masterworks from the Hudson River School, Tonalist, Impressionist, and Modernist movements.

Blog entries from Questroyal Fine Art Blog

John Leslie Breck (1860–1899) Early Snow, 1894. Oil on canvas. 18¼ x 22 inches (approx.) Signed and dated lower left: John Leslie Breck / 1894. Available at Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York

Bidders Beware: American Art Sales Yield Strong Results

Posted: June 05, 2013 21:42 Last Updated: | Louis M. Salerno, Owner

Last month's American art auctions in New York confirmed the market's accelerating recovery. Critics may point out disappointing lots, but as an eager buyer I can assure you that it was exceedingly difficult to acquire the most desirable work. This is a market that consists of well-informed collectors, determined to purchase paintings that represent the best efforts by important artists. If you were in the auction room when those coveted works were offered, you could immediately sense the enthusiasm as you witnessed competitive bidding. We must be careful not to judge the market by the lot...

“An Untamed Nation” at Questroyal Fine Art

Posted: March 16, 2011 09:52 Last Updated: | Louis M. Salerno, Owner

New York’s Only Annual Hudson River School Exhibition to Run March 10–April 2, 2011. Questroyal Fine Art, LLC is pleased to announce its eleventh annual Hudson River School exhibition, An Untamed Nation. The show, which opened to the public on March 10, features examples by America’s most beloved landscape artists of the nineteenth-century. Highlights include a sublime landscape by the 19th-century forefather of American art, Thomas Doughty, a marine masterpiece by Luminist painter Francis Augustus Silva, a vibrant Hudson River scene by Jasper Francis Cropsey, and a poetic landscape...

George Bellows (1882–1925) Flaming Breaker, 1913. Oil on panel, 15 x 19 ½ inches. Signed lower left: G W Bellows; inscribed on verso: Flaming Spray [spray is crossed out] Breaker Geo Bellows 146 E 19 NY A 187

A Force Brewing

Posted: July 16, 2010 12:27 Last Updated: | Louis M. Salerno, Owner

Perhaps we should be grateful that world events occasionally derail us from the deeply grooved course of modern society so that we are forced to consider our own journey. We seek a reference to gauge the nature of our own experience and art has a vital role in this process. The economic disruption and disillusionment of recent times has increased our awareness of this quality and refocused our attention on the art that is personally meaningful. As a dealer observing the ebb and flow of the American art market, I detect a fundamental change in the way collectors perceive the value o...