Richard Green to exhibit in Paris at FAB (Fine Arts La Biennale) at the Grand Palais
22nd-27th November 2024
‘We love Paris in the Fall’: who doesn’t? With a strong tradition of dealing in Old Master, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist French paintings, Richard Green Gallery exhibited at the Paris Biennale for five decades from 1973. Richard Green was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2002 for his services to the Anglo-French art market. We are excited, therefore, to be returning to Paris this November to exhibit at the inaugural edition of FAB (Fine Arts La Biennale) fair in the magnificent setting of the newly-restored Grand Palais. The fantastic confection of Art Nouveau ironwork and glass has been returned to its pristine state to showcase the new fair.
Among the highlights of our stand is a delicate Vase de fleurs, c.1805, by Anne Vallayer-Coster, one of very few female painters of her day to become a member of the Académie Royale. She was honoured by Queen Marie-Antoinette but survived to have a successful career after the Revolution.
The energy of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, so intertwined with the history of Paris, is reflected in works by Degas, Sisley, Renoir and Manguin. Maximilien Luce’s dazzling La maison de Suzanne Valadon, 1895, is a Pointillist homage to Montmartre, crucible of creativity, and the ramshackle mansion in which both Luce and Valadon at different times lived.
Very different in spirit is the mesmerising calm of Félix Vallotton’s La Seine aux Andelys, le soir, 1924. Swiss-born but Paris-based, Vallotton combined a reverence for the French classical landscape tradition with a northern European sensibility. This work is influenced by the ‘historical landscapes’ of his hero, Nicolas Poussin, who was born near Les Andelys in 1594.
Vallotton’s career is a reminder of the international nature of French art, with generations of foreign painters influenced by, and influencing, a vital French tradition. Marc Chagall’s Esquisse pour chèvre dans un bouquet, 1952, is a joyous, colourful expression of the artist’s happiness in his adopted home of France and new marriage, intertwined with haunting memories of his birthplace, Vitebsk.
French connoisseurs have always looked beyond their borders in acquiring art, with Netherlandish paintings popular down the centuries. Our selection of works at the fair includes an exquisite Still life of a pewter plate of hazelnuts, c.1610, by the pioneering Antwerp still life painter Osias Beert the Elder. Nicolaes Berchem’s A halt on the falcon hunt, c.1665, combines a genre scene with a brilliantly atmospheric evocation of nature and a subtle play of light.
FAB (Fine Arts La Biennale), 22nd-27th November 2024
Stand B12
Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris, France
Paris Grand Palais