NEWS FROM THE SALON DU DESSIN
Monday, October 14, 2024

As a partner of the Salon du Dessin, The Drawing Foundation invites Louis de Bayser, president of the Salon du Dessin, and Hervé Aaron, one of its founding members and former president, to give a lecture on the occasion of “On Drawings 2024”: “The History of the French Drawing Market”.

Join us in New York City on October 28th and 29th for two days of events and conversations among curators, collectors, conservators, and artists focused on historical, modern, and contemporary drawings.

Registration for all events is free with membership to The Drawing Foundation and includes a general admission ticket to The Art Show by ADAA (October 29-November 2).

Free and discounted memberships are available for students.

Register on the website of The Drawing Foundation 

Monday, October 28

10:30am
Discovering Drawings in What It Becomes at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Led by Scout Hutchinson, exhibition curator & Associate Curator, Parrish Art Museum.

11am
Drawing Trouble: Fakes, Forgeries, and Close Looking at Old Master Drawings

Led by John Marciari, Director of Curatorial Affairs & Head of Department, Drawings and Prints, Morgan Library and Museum
Space is limited.
Priority for this workshop will be given to curators responsible for drawing collections and emerging scholars. Instructions for applying for consideration for the workshop will be provided in the registration form.

2:30pm
Talking Drawings: Beyond Paper

Presented in partnership with The Society for the History of Collecting
Michael Findlay, Director of Acquavella Galleries, and Jacob El Hanani, artist, in a conversation moderated by Elizabeth Pergam, Co-Chair of The Society for the History of Collecting and founder of its Americas Chapter.
This event is sponsored by Master Drawings New York.

5:30pm
The Salon du Dessin’s Contributions: A History of the Market for Drawings in France

Presented in partnership with the Salon du Dessin.

Lecture by Hervé Aaron, president Didier Aaron, and Louis de Bayser, president of the Salon du Dessin and FAB Paris.

Since its first iteration in 1991, the Salon du Dessin made an important intervention into the French art world and contributed to an increasingly energetic interest in drawings in particular. The international fair now brings collectors, specialists, curators, scholars and connoisseurs from all over the world.

This lecture will offer an overview of the history art market in France for old master and modern drawings and insights into the contributions of the Salon du Dessin among other trends.

Born in Paris in 1972, Louis de Bayser hails from a dynasty of world-renowned art dealers. Shortly after completing his business studies, he set off to become an Old Master Drawing expert following the footsteps of his ancestors. In 1998, together with three of his brothers (he is one of eleven children), he took over the prestigious Galerie de Bayser which had been run by his parents, Bruno & Thérèse de Bayser since the 1960s. The Parisian gallery was originally created in 1936 by Louis’ grandparents, Patrick and Rose-Anne de Bayser.

Appointed President of the Salon du Dessin in 2014, Louis de Bayser was instrumental in the creation of Fine Arts Paris in 2017 and became the fair’s president the same year. Over the past years, he has played a major role in ensuring the rapid growth of these two Paris fairs and expanding their international reputation. Following the fusion of Fine Arts Paris with La Biennale in February 2022, he was chosen as President of the new fair, Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale, renamed FAB Paris in 2023.

Hervé Aaron is the New York-based president of the Didier Aaron gallery, founded in 1923 and specializing in the sale of paintings, drawings and sculptures from the 17th to the 19th centuries, with offices in Paris and New York. He represents the third generation of this family of art dealers. Involved in promoting France abroad with the Comité Colbert and the French art market, he was one of the founding members of the Salon du Dessin in 1991, which he chaired for 17 years, and was president of the Syndicat National des Antiquaires from 2008 to 2010, in charge of organizing the Biennale des Antiquaires’.

This event is sponsored by the Salon du Dessin.

6:45pm
Welcome Reception sponsored by the Salon du Dessin

Tuesday, October 29

10am
Thinking About Process & Drawings: Site Visits

Participants will select one site visit upon registration. Space is limited; register early to reserve a space in your first choice site visit. Among others, options include:

• The Drawings of Sèvres Extraordinaire with the Bard Graduate Center
  with Charlotte Vignon, independent curator & former director of the department of patrimony and collections at Sèvres et Limoges, Manufacture et Musées nationaux (2020-2023)
• Drawings by Indigenous Artists at MoMA, Past and Present
  with Esther Adler, Curator, Drawings and Prints, The Museum of Modern Art
• Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin
  with Perrin Stein, Curator, Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Drawing to Print: Looking at Grosvenor School Artists
  with Jennifer Farrell, Curator, Drawings and Prints, and Rachel Mustalish, Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, Sherman Fairchild Center for Conservation of Work of Art on Paper, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3pm
Beyond Boundaries: Approaches to Contemporary Drawings

Presented in partnership with the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Rachel Federman, art historian, writer, and curator, Lindsey Tyne, Conservation Librarian at New York University Libraries, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, and Annabel Daou, artist and adjunct association in the art history department, Barnard College with a discussion moderated by Lisa Conte, Assistant Professor of Paper Conservation and Co-Chair of the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts

5pm
Closing Reception sponsored by Master Drawings New York

Full program details on The Drawing Foundation website