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Pinault’s Museum in Paris Bourse Unveils Round Exhibition Space and Prospective 2019 Opening Date

June 27, 2017 by Marion Maneker

Vogue has the details on François Pinault’s museum in the former Paris Bourse that now has a plan and an opening date. All it lacks is programming:

  • In addition to preserving several unique features, such as the immense 1800s ironwork, the glass cupola—the world’s first such structure—and a double-helix stairway, its turn-of-the-century woodwork will be reinstated. The new museum will include 3,000 square meters of exhibition space; its five-floor layout features a 300-seat basement auditorium and a restaurant on the top floor. Ando said that he was inspired by the circular building to reinforce the idea of a “circle within a perfect circle” to create “an epicenter of art in Paris.”

Pinault Presents Future Museum in Paris (Vogue)

FT Says Pinault Sold London’s $9m Ghenie in London

November 11, 2016 by Marion Maneker

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Some of the speculation about Adrian Ghenie owners has put the finger on Dean Valentine as the consignor of Christie’s The Bridge, which has become the source of some anticipation to see of the artist can repeat the success of last month’s sale in London of Nickelodeon. Speaking of which, the Financial Times’s Melanie Gerlis identifies the seller:

The lucky seller of that Adrian Ghenie painting at Christie’s in London last month was François Pinault, who owns the auction house through Groupe Artémis. The work — “Nickelodeon” (2008), guaranteed by a third party — soared ahead of its £1m to £1.5m estimate on October 6 to sell for a record £6.2m (£7.1m with fees). The work was priced in five figures when it originally sold to Pinault in 2008-9, through Haunch of Venison gallery, which Christie’s owned at the time.

The Art Market: uncertainty in New York, sales in Turin (Financial Times)

Pinault's "Propre Goût"

April 10, 2011 by Marion Maneker

Jackie Wullschlager had lunch with François Pinault for the Financial Times’s series of ‘Lunch with the FT’ profiles. The long essay paraphrases from Pinault a fair bit but he also talks about his path as a collector:

[I]n 1980, in London, he stepped into an auction house for the first time. “I saw a small canvas by [Pont-Aven artist] Paul Sérusier, a Breton scene of a farm with an old woman. I bought it because she resembled my grandmother. That was my first significant purchase. Then I looked, I read, and I galloped through the twentieth century – Picasso and the cubists, surrealism.” A landmark was Mondrian’s “Tableau Losangique II”, bought for $8.8m in 1990, which announced the rigorous, cerebral nature of his taste.

[…] In the 1990s, he realised that from the postwar period onwards, “one could still find major things”. “Everything earlier was already in museums, it was too late,” he says. “Then – voilà! – I arrived at the contemporary. Two things mattered: the first, to do with my character, my curiosity for knowledge; the second, to be able to buy artists who count.”

[…] “Mon propre goût,” Pinault says suddenly, as our main courses appear, “is minimalism – Donald Judd, Robert Ryman, things assez mystique, big white paintings.” He stabs at his scallops, pushing the accompanying spinach to one side as irrelevant. “But I didn’t want to be a maniac, collecting just one thing, imprisoned in a sole period. So – j’ai enlargi la palette de ma connaissance [I widened the scope of my knowledge]. Also a spirit of tolerance made me look more broadly.”

Lunch with the FT: François Pinault (Financial Times)

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