LONDON.- London Art Week announces a series of Salons for Winter 2018, combining special selling exhibitions and auctions with one-off events, discussions and talks that will explore 5,000 years of fine art. LAW Winter 2018 Salons invite new audiences to connect with pre-contemporary art, and provide a platform for more than 40 eminent UK and international art dealers and auction houses to engage with curators, connoisseurs and collectors.

Running from Thursday, 29 November to Friday, 7 December, there will be a late night on Tuesday, 4 December and a select number of galleries will open during the weekend of 1 and 2 December. Opening times are more varied than LAW Summer exhibitions so check the website for full details www.londonartweek.co.uk. The salons will be held at public and private locations across Mayfair and St. James's, the celebrated heartland of London’s gallery scene for over 200 years and home to many of the world’s greatest art dealerships.

The range of events will showcase objects and sculpture from ancient Greece and the Far East to European Neoclassical; works of art from the Medieval to modernist, and master paintings, watercolours and drawings from the 17th to 20th centuries.

Selling exhibitions will include The Influencing Image: A Century of Commercial Illustration and Design at Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, highlighting the years of beautifully detailed and delicate draughtsmanship in Europe as the 19th century turned to the 20th; and British Art at Bagshawe Fine Art, which will feature a fine example of a Scottish artist of that era, Robert Burns A.R.S.A. (1869-1941), who trained at the Glasgow School of Art and was one of the earliest enthusiasts in Scotland for Art Nouveau.

At London Art Week the finest pre-contemporary art available on the world market is shown and offered for sale. Popular tours around the galleries are part of the London Art Week experience. A full programme of events, exhibitions map and opening times will be available at www.londonartweek.co.uk. There is no charge to visit the exhibitions, and most of the events and talks are free.