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Art and Antiques

In Paris, you can buy art and antiques either from shops and Art Galleries
galleries with established reputations, or from flea markets Established art galleries are
and avant-garde galleries. Many of the presti gious antiques located on or around the
shops and galleries are located around the Rue du Faubourg- Avenue Montaigne.
Artcurial Gallery, located
St-Honoré and are worth a visit even if you can’t afford to buy. on the ground floor of the
On the Left Bank is Le Carré Rive Gauche, an organization of Hôtel Dassault, holds regular
30 antiques dealers. Objets d’art over 50 years old, worth exhibitions and specializes in
more than a given amount (values vary for all categories limited editions of contemp-
of art object), will require a Certificat pour un bien culturel orary sculpture, photography,
to be exported anywhere in the world (provided by the prints and multiples. Galerie
Lelong is devoted to
vendor), plus a licence d’exportation for non-EU countries. contemporary artists. The
Seek professional advice from the large antiques shops. Fondation Cartier space is
far from the crowds, in the
Exporting
p130) sells expensive, quality 14th arrondissement. The
The Ministry of Culture furniture. On Rue du Faubourg- garden surrounding the
designates objets d’art. Export St-Honoré, you will find Didier glass building adds an extra
licences are available from the Aaron, expert on furniture from dimension to the gallery’s
Comité National des Conseillers the 17th and 18th centuries. mix of contemporary sculpture,
du Commerce Extérieur de la Village St-Paul, between the urban art and performing arts.
France. The Centre des Quai des Célestins, the Rue On the Left Bank, Galerie
Renseignements des Douanes St-Paul and the Rue Charlemagne, Maeght has a tremendous stock
has a booklet, Bulletin Officiel des is the most charming group of of paintings at prices to suit
Douanes, with all the details. antiques shops and is also most budgets; it also publishes
open on Sundays. fine art books. Galerie 1900–
Philippe de Beauvais focuses 2000 specializes in works
Modern Crafts and on antique lighting fixtures, by Surrealist and Dada artists,
Furniture especially chandeliers. Le and Galerie Jeanne Bucher
One of the best places for Village Suisse in the south of represents post-war Abstraction
furniture and objets d’art is the city also groups many art with artists like Nicolas de Staël
Sentou (see pp322 and 324), and antiques dealers. Located and Vieira da Silva. Dina Vierny
where you can find objects in Le Village Suisse, Ghislaine is a bastion of Modernism,
and textiles, as well as furniture Chaplier carries an eclectic founded by scul ptor Aristide
by contem porary designers. inventory of small antiques Maillol’s famous model of the
Another essential venue is and rare glass objects. same name. Rue Louise Weiss,
the show room of the Italian in the east of Paris, is home
designer Giulio Cappellini. Reproductions, Posters to the Air de Paris gallery.
Le Viaduc des Arts (see In the Marais, try Galerie
pp274–5) is a railway viaduct, and Prints Daniel Templon – specializing
each arch of which has been A beautiful, contemporary art in American art, Galerie Sit
transformed into a shop front gallery called Artcurial on the Down, Galerie Bernard Jordan
and work shop space. It's a Rond Point des Champs-Elysées and Galerie du Jour Agnès B.
great place for contemporary has one of the best selections of In the same area, Galerie
metalwork, tapestry, sculpture, international art periodicals, Florence Loewy is a fashionable
ceramics and much more. books and prints. On Rue place to buy catalogues on
St-Sulpice, J C Martinez is a new artists, if not their
popular shop for sketches, actual works.
Antiques and reproductions, prints and
Objets d’Art
old engravings. The museum
If you wish to buy antiques, you bookshops, especially those in Auctions and
might like to stroll around the the Palais de Tokyo (see p205), Auction Houses
areas that boast many galleries – Louvre (see p123), Musée The great Paris auction
in Le Carré Rive Gauche around d’Orsay (see p147) and centre, in operation since
Quai Malaquais, try L’Arc en Pompidou Centre (see p111) 1858, is Drouot (see p220).
Seine and Anne-Sophie Duval are good places to buy art Bidding can be intimidating
for Art Nouveau and Art Deco. books, posters and postcards. since most of it is done by
Rue Jacob is still one of the Galerie Documents on the dealers. Beware of the
best places to seek beautiful Rue de Seine sells original auctioneer’s high-speed
objects, antique or modern. antique posters. Or leaf through patter. La Gazette de L’Hôtel
Close to the Louvre, the the second-hand book stalls Drouot tells you what auctions
Louvre des Antiquaires (see along the banks of the Seine. are coming up.

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