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The Fair that Revives the Fine Arts

Published on , by Dimitri Joannides

For its third edition, Fine Arts Paris is no longer focusing only on graphic arts and sculpture, hitherto its trademark, but is opening out to new specialties.

Georges Lallemant (1575-1636), La Rixe (The Brawl), oil on canvas, 92 x 120.5 cm... The Fair that Revives the Fine Arts

Georges Lallemant (1575-1636), La Rixe (The Brawl), oil on canvas, 92 x 120.5 cm (detail).
© F. Baulme Fine Arts

The newcomer is decidedly moving up a gear! Created in 2017 by the organisers of the Salon du Dessin, Fine Arts Paris is stating its ambition more overtly this year: to become the benchmark fair where museums do their buying. In 2019, the young fair dedicated to fine arts from Antiquity to the present day is hosting forty-six exhibitors, including a dozen new Parisian and international dealers. Heading for New Horizons The organisers of Fine Arts Paris, the final show in the Paris fair season, have decided to go off the beaten track by inviting representatives of new disciplines. Classical art buffs will discover a remarkable dog painting by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (Didier Aaron), an astonishing Eugène Delacroix…
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