Walter Arader

Art dealer and advisor

Portrait of Walter Arader in a dark suit and tie

Walter Arader is an art dealer and advisor specializing in American and European works on paper and paintings, and in Buddhist and Hindu art from the Himalayas, China, and India.

He has placed works with museums and distinguished private collections in America, Europe, and Asia, and advises both museums and private collectors on acquisitions, sales, and research.

He holds an MPhil from the University of Oxford, with doctoral coursework in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, trained in Classical Tibetan at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute, and is a member of the Art and Antique Dealers League of America.

Selected works

Standing figure of the Eleven-faced Avalokiteshvara on a dark ground
Eleven-faced Avalokiteshvara Tibet, 15th century
Audubon’s Carolina Parrot: green parakeets with yellow and orange heads among branches
Carolina Parrot John James Audubon, The Birds of America, plate 26, 1827
Eugène Boudin, a rocky headland and sandy cove under a clear sky, with small boats on a turquoise sea
Camaret, La Pointe du Toulinguet Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), 1872

Specialties

Works on paper and paintings

American and European works on paper, including natural-history watercolors, prints, and oil paintings.

Himalayan, Chinese, and Indian art

Buddhist and Hindu sculpture and painting from the Himalayas, China, and India.

Selected placements

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
  • Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art New York
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Houston
  • Dallas Museum of Art Dallas
  • Asian Art Museum San Francisco
  • Yale University Art Gallery New Haven
  • Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati
  • Fujian Museum Fuzhou
  • Harvard Art Museums Cambridge
  • Stanford University Libraries Stanford

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