Celebrating October Art Week, an Upper East Side gallery crawl for art enthusiasts

On October 25, over a dozen blue-chip galleries will open their doors on New York’s Upper East Side to kick-off October Art Week. Organized to coincide with TEFAF New York and Christie’s Classic Art Week of auctions and selling exhibitions, these pre-eminent fine art dealers add to the week’s whirlwind activities by curating and hosting special exhibitions—all within strolling distance of one another. Here is an overview of some of the prime highlights that deserve special notice: Didier Aaron, Inc., showcases Study for ‘The Greeks and Trojans fighting over the body of Patroclus’ by Nicolas-Guy Brenet an oil on canvas executed circa 1781. 32 East 67th Street At Ambrose Naumann Fine Art, Calumny, by Marcel Delmotte, stands front and center. This painting is an outstanding example of Delmotte’s dynamic approach to allegorical subject matter. The classical nude figures in Calumny clearly reflect