Seven Rare Works You Won’t Want to Miss at The Winter Show This Week

Now in its 72nd edition, The Winter Show returns to the Park Avenue Armory from January 23 through February 1, reaffirming its position as the longest-running art, antiques, and design fair in the United States. Established in 1954, the fair remains as much a philanthropic endeavor as a cultural one, with all net proceeds from ticketed events benefitting East Side House Settlement, which provides educational and workforce programs for more than 15,000 residents in the Bronx and Northern Manhattan each year.

The fair opens with its celebrated Opening Night Preview on January 22, a cornerstone of New York’s winter social calendar. This year’s preview honors Caroline Kennedy for her lifelong commitment to public service, education, and the arts—underscoring the fair’s long-standing mission to align cultural excellence with civic impact. Additional benefit events, including Young Collectors Night and the Jewelry Luncheon, extend that mission across generations of collectors and design enthusiasts.

The Winter Show Returns with Exhibitions, Programming, and Collector-Driven Context

Beyond its exhibitor booths, The Winter Show distinguishes itself through thoughtfully curated exhibitions and rigorous educational programming. Among this year’s highlights is “Study of a Young Collector,” an immersive installation envisioning the private study of an imaginary next-generation collector. Curated by Patrick Monahan with Helen Allen, the exhibition blends objects across time periods and cultures, inviting visitors to reflect on how personal taste and historical curiosity intersect.

Another standout, “The American Chair: 250 Years of Form,” traces the evolution of American design through a single, everyday object—revealing how shifts in materials, craftsmanship, and social ideals are embedded in furniture history. These exhibitions are complemented by a robust slate of panel discussions exploring topics ranging from conservation and collecting ethics to the role of collaboration in contemporary design culture.

This year’s exhibitor roster brings together more than 70 leading international dealers, presenting museum-quality works spanning fine art, furniture, jewelry, silver, rare books, and contemporary ceramics and glass. Every object is vetted by specialists across more than 30 disciplines, reinforcing the fair’s reputation for connoisseurship and scholarly rigor.

Seven Rare Works You Won’t Want to Miss

Robert Simon Fine Art

Paolo Uccello

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

One of only 24 independent paintings known by Paolo Uccello, this unpublished early panel, presented by Robert Simon Fine Art, reveals the artist’s formative experiments with perspective, balancing Gothic tradition with emerging Renaissance innovation. Its rarity is compounded by the fact that only two Uccello paintings remain in private hands, making this a once-in-a-generation discovery.

Lillian Nassau LLC

Tiffany Studios

Wisteria Lamp

Among the most intricate designs ever produced by Tiffany Studios, the Wisteria Lamp pairs a cascading leaded-glass shade with a sculptural tree-trunk base. Designed as a single unified object and presented by Lillian Nassau LLC, it remains an icon of American decorative arts, with related examples held in major museum collections.

Geoffrey Diner Gallery

Ron Arad

London Papardelle, c. 1992

Hand-woven and polished stainless steel transforms rigid metal into a fluid, ribbon-like form in this early work by Ron Arad. Entirely handmade, the piece, presented by Geoffrey Diner Gallery, exemplifies the designer’s radical departure from machine-age modernism and his sculptural approach to furniture design.

Boccara Gallery

Man Ray

Decanter Print from the “Revolving Doors” series

Created in 1926, this print, presented by Boccara Gallery, reflects Man Ray’s fascination with movement and transformation through abstract geometry. Works from the “Revolving Doors” series are held in the collections of MoMA, The Whitney, and The Met, situating this example firmly within the canon of Surrealist photography.

Greg Pepin Silver

Johan Rohde

for Georg Jensen, Six-Light Silver Chandelier, 1918

Designed by Johan Rohde, this chandelier is considered one of the rarest Georg Jensen silver objects in existence. Featuring Rohde’s iconic Cosmos pattern and extraordinary provenance—including time spent in the Georg Jensen flagship and museum collections—it bridges Art Nouveau and early Art Deco with Scandinavian refinement, presented at The Winter Show with Greg Pepin Silver.

Rose Uniacke

Axel Einar Hjorth

Utö Dining Table, 1932

Produced for Nordiska Kompaniet as part of Axel Einar Hjorth’s celebrated “Sportstugemöbler” series, this table merges modernist form with rustic craftsmanship designed for Swedish leisure homes. Museum-catalogued and richly documented, it represents a pivotal moment in Nordic design history, presented at The Winter Show by Rose Uniacke.

Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker

Angelica Kauffmann

Hebe, c. 1807

Left unfinished in Angelica Kauffmann’s Roman studio at her death, Hebe is a rare large-scale history painting by one of the most influential women artists of the 18th century. Held in the same family collection since the 1830s, the work carries exceptional scholarly weight and historical resonance, presented at The Winter Show by Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker.

The Winter Show at a Glance

What: The Winter Show
Where: Park Avenue Armory, New York City (67th Street at Park Avenue)
When: January 23 – February 1, 2026
Opening Night Preview: Thursday, January 22, 5–9 PM
Young Collectors Night: Thursday, January 29, 6–9 PM
Connoisseurs Night: Friday, January 30, 5:30–8 PM
Why It Matters: A cornerstone of New York’s cultural calendar, The Winter Show brings together museum-quality art, antiques, and design while supporting East Side House Settlement’s education and workforce programs in the Bronx and Northern Manhattan.
Tickets: Available at thewintershow.org