Curt Valentin
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) was a German-born American art dealer known for handling modern art, particularly sculpture, and works classified as "degenerate" by the Nazi regime in pre-war Germany.
In 1934, he worked at the Buchholz Gallery, Hamburg
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. In 1937, he emigrated to America, and opened a modern art gallery, Bucholz gallery, in New York City
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.
He had permission to sell German art in America, from the Nazi authorities.
In 1951 the gallery was renamed the Curt Valentin Gallery.
His gallery operated from 1951, until a year after his death in 1954, and handled works by many notable artists including Alexander Calder
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, Henry Moore
Henry Moore
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, and Marino Marini.