PAD PARIS, GALLERIES NOT TO BE MISSED - L'OFFICIEL

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Galleries unanimously congratulate themselves on their sales

Going to design fairs is an enchanted interlude in a period of repeated crises. There are no shortfalls here. From the very first day, gallery owners are unanimously pleased with their sales, especially as it is on the day dedicated to collectors that the economic fate of the galleries is sealed. Furniture is a ‘safe haven’, as Benjamin Desprez explains.
On the other hand, a very interesting work is looking for a buyer at Galerie Chevalier Parsua: a large tapestry in shimmering colours by Jean Lurçat. Dating from 1965, it is one of the last works by the artist, who died in 1966. The tapestry has a testamentary dimension, featuring a number of motifs dear to its creator, such as the fish. Gallery owner Amélie-Margot Chevalier explains that, in order to find a buyer, such a piece has to satisfy taste, budget… and walls. The tapestry covers the entire length of the stand. The historian Nicolas Offenstadt, who met us outside the gallery, confided his admiration for this artist. For him, he is “a great figure of the committed intellectual, a veteran of the Great War arrested for pacifist propaganda and a fellow traveller with the Communist Party, committed during the Spanish Civil War. He combines art and commitment”.