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Louis de Bayser: A Thoroughly Parisian President

Published on , by Estelle Dupuis

In the wake of deconfinement, Louis de Bayser, who heads Fine Arts Paris, reveals the strategies adopted by this influential fair to adapt to the new state of play without losing an iota of its precious core values.

Louis de Bayser Pre?sident de FINE ARTS PARIS Louis de Bayser: A Thoroughly Parisian President

Louis de Bayser Pre?sident de FINE ARTS PARIS

In the context of a health crisis, Fine Arts Paris has announced a considerable increase in its size, if the fair counted 45 exhibitors in 2019, it has the goal  to increase this number to 70. The decision was made after the 2019 edition. Our exhibitors were asking the fair to incorporate more specialities to give them a broader scope of action, and only present the best with each of them. The first edition in 2017 focused solely on a fine arts offering. Then we added antiques, textiles and archaeology. This year, we are introducing bibliophily and the arts of Africa and Asia. And then the Covid-19 crisis arrived… With all the contingent problems in terms of logistics, finance and health! Though these aspects are not intrinsic to the central pulse of the event, which is the excellence of the works on…
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