Art Market Monitor

Credit: Linda Yablonsky

Georgina Adam declares The Modern Project at FIAC, “the runaway success of the fair.” Dealer Thaddeus Ropac explains that’s because the French are mare passionate collectors than most people realize:

The Project, housed in a grey-walled, custom-built booth complete with black-suited security guards and velvet ropes to restrict visitors, has proved the runaway success of the fair. [...] Fiac . . . has been gaining in reputation for the past three years on the back of a strong but discreet group of French and European collectors. “There is less glamour, less of a celebrity culture than in London, but some of the sales here are staggering in size,” says Paris and Salzburg dealer Thaddaeus Ropac. “The French collect much more than people think.”

Art Market: French Flair (Financial Times)

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