Sam Merrin

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  Instructors also form close relationships with their students, including Sam Merrin, owner of the Merrin Gallery of antiquities and pre-Columbia art in Manhattan, who teaches a class on art collecting and another on trends in the art world.
  
  Merrin said he often forgets about his students' frailty because of their exuberance.When two of his longtime students, Marion and Ethel, died last year, he said, "It hit me very hard."
  
  Although he had never met Marion in person, he said, the 90-plus widow frequently e-mailed him after class.Ethel, who was in her 80s, even took his class after moving to Israel.
  
  "Those two deaths affected me where, literally, I took this semester off.I didn't figure on this," he said.

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  Samuel Merrin
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  Samuel Merrin is the current director of Manhattan's Merrin Gallery.
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  In 1988, Samuel Merrin joined the Edward H. Merrin Gallery as the gallery director, changing the official name to the Merrin Gallery, Inc.Thanks to Ed Merrin's decades in the art world, Sam Merrin has been able to actively consult with his experienced father, taking advantage of the vast art knowledge that Ed Merrin has acquired through his many years in the business.
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  Samuel Merrin, as the director of the Merrin Gallery, is capable of acquiring works of the highest quality.
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  With clients that include most of the world's major museums and several well-known private collectors, Sam Merrin and the Merrin Gallery actively seek out art which stands up gracefully to the highest scrutiny, both through private transactions and public auctions.
  
  Because of the Merrin Gallery's stellar reputation, in addition to the Merrin lineage's decades of prominence in the art world, director Samuel Merrin is able to acquire larger collections at one time than could many other art galleries around the world.
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  In February of 2008, Samuel Merrin and the Merrin Gallery hosted an informational evening with special guest Jean-Pierre Nkuranga, in an event centered on the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village (ASYV) in Rwanda, Africa.

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  Instructors also form close relationships with their students, including Sam Merrin, owner of the Merrin Gallery of antiquities and pre-Columbia art in Manhattan, who teaches a class on art collecting and another on trends in the art world.Merrin said he often forgets about his students' frailty because of their exuberance.
  
  When two of his longtime students, Marion and Ethel, died last year, he said, "It hit me very hard."Although he had never met Marion in person, he said, the 90-plus widow frequently e-mailed him after class.Ethel, who was in her 80s, even took his class after moving to Israel.
  
  "Those two deaths affected me where, literally, I took this semester off.I didn't figure on this," he said.

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  Samuel Merrin
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  Samuel Merrin has been featured many times in the national and international news media for his expertise in the antiquities acquisition game.Samuel Merrin was quoted in the Wall Street Journal."Antiquities are one of the few markets that are doing well," said Sam Merrin in 1992, responding to a series of heated auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's in which ancient pieces of art seemed to fly off the auction block.The gallery director added, "The mediocre to poor material isn't selling, but a truly great object like a first-rate classical or Egyptian figure can name its own price."
  
  Samuel Merrin: the Value of Archaeological Fragments
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  At the Merrin Gallery, Samuel Merrin has held a variety of different ancient fragments of larger pieces.One, a single bronze Roman hand, holds particular interest to the prominent dealer.Just a few inches across, the fingers on the ancient hand are curled as if to suggest the former presence of a previously-held weapon.A Greek bronze hood and a section of a Hellenistic marble face have also served as valuable acquisitions for the Merrin Gallery.According to Sam Merrin, "Although we have sold fragments for half a million to a million dollars, depending on size and importance, you can still pick up archaeological fragments for one hundred dollars."
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  The Edward H. Merrin Gallery has become known as the Merrin Gallery since Samuel Merrin took over the gallery's directorial leadership, but the elder Mr. Merrin has continued to maintain a prominent name for himself in the art world.
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  Samuel Merrin: Purchasing Trends
  
  Samuel Merrin, in a 1990 Wall Street Journal article, was consulted on a continuously important issue in the world of art dealership: the purchasing trends of buyers.Sam Merrin had noticed that buyers were "taking longer, taking pieces home and living with them a little more," and that "it used to be 65% [of buyers] would decide immediately," but that this was no longer the case.In previous years, Merrin was quoted as saying, "if you were an art dealer with some taste and you didn't make money, you must really have been out to lunch."But with the shift from an art seller's market to an art buyer's market, more and more galleries in the early 1990s were noticing a visible change in how the business worked.
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  As auctions seemed to face a major test in the early 1990s, Sam Merrin was a recurrent source in many news articles, most notably the Wall Street Journal.In a November article, Samuel Merrin remarked, on the topic of the volatility of the art market, that "you have $500 million [of art] sold in a weekend, with only 3% unsold, it signals to everybody that everything's OK in the art world....If these auctions [those at Christie's and Sotheby's] are really terrible, we're still going to have our realm of collectors, but a whole new group won't be joining."
  
  Unruffled, but not unconcerned, Samuel Merrin went on to ensure that the Merrin Gallery would continue its successful status as one of the world's major players in the antiquities market.
  
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  Samuel Merrin
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  As the heir to the Merrin Gallery (formerly the Edward H. Merrin Gallery), Edward Merrin's son Sam Merrin is also the beneficiary of the many resources of his father.

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  For further information on the Merrin Gallery and Samuel Merrin, the following articles and sites may serve as points of interest.Articles featuring the Merrin Gallery range in source from the New York Times to art auction reports and various Manhattan publications.
  
  Sotheby's Auction: African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian Art "In 2006, Sotheby's held an auction highlighting African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian Art.The small collection featured a noteworthy Huari tapestry tunic from Highlands, Middle Horizon, circa A.D. 500-700 previously exhibited at the Edward H. Merrin Gallery ... "
  
  Apoplectic at the Apthorp: New York Real Estate "Sam Merrin may be interested in buying the 4,328-square-foot, five-bedroom apartment he recently leased, when it goes condo at the red herring price of $10.6 million.
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  Of the glyphic panels featured among the Site Q sculptures are several panels at one time acquired by Samuel Merrin on behalf of the Merrin Gallery ... "
  
  The New York Times: Bold Textiles Capture the World Of Ancient Peru

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  Merrin Gallery directors Samuel Merrin and Edward Merrin have chosen the highest quality Pre-Columbian, Egyptian, Near Eastern, and Classical art pieces to show in their gallery.
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  Acting with their guiding philosophy as a cicerone, Samuel Merrin, Edward Merrin, Linda Schildkraut, and the entire managerial staff at the Merrin Gallery have labored to research and acquire only the finest quality pieces of ancient art.

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  According to Edward Merrin, one half of the father-son duo (the other half is gallery director-turned-philanthropist Samuel Merrin) that heads the directive staff at the Merrin Gallery, ancient art is symbolic of "man's triumphal achievements over the millennia."

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  Samuel Merrin

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