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| Galerie Claude Samuel | |
|---|---|
| Name | Galerie Claude Samuel |
| Established | 20th century |
| Location | Paris |
| Founder | Claude Samuel |
| Type | Contemporary art gallery |
Galerie Claude Samuel Galerie Claude Samuel was a Paris-based contemporary art gallery notable for exhibitions of modern painters, sculptors, and multimedia artists. The gallery engaged with Parisian institutions and collectors while collaborating with museums and art fairs across Europe and North America. Its program intersected with movements and figures from postwar abstraction to contemporary figurative practices.
The gallery emerged in the late 20th century amid debates around postwar modernism, connecting to exhibitions at Musée d'Orsay, Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Musée Picasso, and Musée national d'Art moderne. Early shows responded to retrospectives by curators from Musée des Arts Décoratifs and collectors associated with Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Fondation Louis Vuitton, and Fondation Beyeler. The venue participated in art fairs such as FIAC, Art Basel, TEFAF, Frieze Art Fair, and Armory Show while collaborating with critics from Le Monde, Le Figaro, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Artforum.
Programming reflected influences from artists featured in major surveys at Tate Modern, MoMA, Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Rijksmuseum. The gallery's timeline intersected with movements tied to figures celebrated at the Venice Biennale, Documenta, Biennale of Sydney, and São Paulo Art Biennial. Loans and exchanges connected to archives at Bibliothèque nationale de France, Getty Research Institute, and Centre national des arts plastiques.
Founded by Claude Samuel, the management engaged curators and directors with prior roles at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Institut du Monde Arabe, Musée Rodin, Musée Marmottan Monet, and university departments at Sorbonne University. Leadership included curators who had collaborated with critics from Art Review, Art in America, Art Press, La Tribune de l'Art, and editors at Phaidon, Thames & Hudson, and Hirmer Verlag. Administrative ties stretched to galleries such as Galerie Maeght, Galerie Perrotin, Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, and David Zwirner, alongside advisers connected to Christie's and Sotheby's.
Located in Paris, the premises were situated near cultural nodes including Place Vendôme, Rue de Rivoli, Le Marais, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and the Quartier Latin. The space shared the neighborhood with institutions like Musée du Louvre, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Opéra Garnier, Palais Garnier, and theaters associated with Comédie-Française. Architectural features referenced restorations by firms linked to projects at Hôtel de Ville de Paris, Petit Palais, and conservation teams associated with Monuments Historiques.
Exhibition programming ranged from solo presentations to thematic group shows, sometimes curated in dialogue with exhibitions at Musées d'art et d'histoire de Genève, Kunstmuseum Basel, Fondazione Prada, MAXXI, and Serpentine Galleries. The gallery hosted openings attended by curators from National Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and critics from The New Yorker. Educational events included talks with academics from École des Beaux-Arts, Columbia University, Yale University, and partnerships with residency programs tied to Cité Internationale des Arts and Villa Médicis. The program also coordinated catalogues and exhibition pamphlets produced by publishers such as Skira, Hatje Cantz, Rizzoli, and D.A.P..
The gallery represented a roster of painters, sculptors, photographers, and mixed-media practitioners whose careers intersected with exhibitions at Documenta, Venice Biennale, Whitney Biennial, and national pavilions at international biennials. Artists showed work in contexts with peers exhibited by Gagosian, White Cube, Galerie Perrotin, Galerie Maeght, and Levy Gorvy. Several represented artists participated in public commissions alongside practitioners linked to Anish Kapoor, Yayoi Kusama, Gerhard Richter, James Turrell, Jeff Koons, Marina Abramović, Cindy Sherman, Tracey Emin, Ai Weiwei, Kara Walker, Olafur Eliasson, Sylvain Chomet, JR, Sophie Calle, Daniel Buren, Niki de Saint Phalle, Brigitte Bardot in photography projects, and others who exhibited at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris and Palazzo Grassi.
Works shown entered collections at Centre Pompidou, Musée d'Orsay, Musées Nationaux, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Tate Collection, Museum of Modern Art Collection, Guggenheim Collection, National Gallery of Art, British Museum, and regional museums like Musée Fabre and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. The gallery produced catalogues and monographs in collaboration with presses such as Gallimard, Flammarion, Editions du Regard, Actes Sud, and exhibition texts commissioned from authors published by Reaktion Books and Columbia University Press. Essays by historians who have written for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Yale University Press, and journals like October, Art Bulletin, and Journal of Modern Art accompanied releases.
Critical reception appeared in outlets including Le Monde, Le Figaro, Libération, The New York Times, The Guardian, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Corriere della Sera, El País, Der Spiegel, and specialist magazines such as Artforum, ArtReview, Frieze, Art in America, and Artpress. The gallery influenced collecting trends discussed at auctions by Christie's and Sotheby's and informed scholarship presented at conferences organized by ICOM, AICA, College Art Association, and academic symposia at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Museological collaborations contributed to loans and exhibitions at institutions like Musée du Quai Branly, Musée de l'Orangerie, Musée Jacquemart-André, and touring shows to Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Asian Art Museum.
Category:Art galleries in Paris Category:Contemporary art galleries