The fourth edition of the FAB Paris Fine Art and Antiques Fair returns to the Grand Palais in September!

FAB Paris 2024, Grand Palais © Courtesy of FAB Paris

In 2025, the fourth edition of FAB Paris will return to the Grand Palais from September 20 to 24, two months ahead of schedule. This new date not only strategically kicks off the fall art season in Paris, but also coincides with the annual highlight of the French cultural calendar, with the unveiling of major exhibitions at major Parisian art institutions. This rescheduling also symbolizes the return of FAB Paris to the traditional schedule of its world-renowned predecessor, La Biennale des Antiquaires, and underscores the fair’s firm commitment to serving the international art market and promoting France’s cultural heritage.

FAB Paris 2024, Grand Palais © Courtesy of FAB Paris

Under the iconic glass dome of the Grand Palais, 100 of the world’s leading fine art and antiques dealers will gather in more than 20 specialties, including fine art, furniture, antiques, jewelry, and more, for an event where art and history intertwine. This year’s fair specially invited the famous French designer Constance Guisset to take charge of the scene design. Renowned in the design world for her dynamic language of light and shadow and bold use of color, she will use her unique aesthetic conception to create a visual feast of light and shadow intertwined with space, and tradition and modernity in this masterpiece of Art Nouveau architecture, the Grand Palais.

Hundreds of exhibitors

Many of the renowned dealers who built the reputation of FAB Paris and its prestigious predecessor, the Biennale des Antiquaires de Paris, will return. These include: Aaron, Steinitz, Léage, Xavier Eeckhout, De Jonckheere, Applicat-Prazan, Berès, Yann Ferrandin, Kevorkian, Rumbler, Florian Kolhammer, David Lévy, La Prévision, and many others. Lévy, La Présidence, Sismann, Dina Vierny, Von Vertes, Alexis Pentcheff and Jean-Christophe Charbonnier.

The fair will also welcome a number of prestigious new exhibitors, including Vallois, the leading decorative arts gallery in Paris; Galerie Perrin, a leading authority on 18th-century French art; Patrick Derom, a Belgian dealer specializing in modern art from Symbolism to Pop Art; and Galerie Mélanges, a leading expert in 16th- to 19th-century painting in France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Galerie Mendes, a renowned specialist in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese paintings from the 16th to 19th centuries; Sarah Sauvin, a young specialist in prints by classical masters and modern masters; and VKD Jewels from Amsterdam and Milan, and the historic Maison Riondet from France, two exhibitors with a deep expertise in the field of antiques and fine jewelry. antiques and fine jewelry.

Rigorous selection: quality through authority

FAB Paris upholds the highest quality and a rigorous selection mechanism throughout the fair. In order to ensure the academic standard and professional credibility of the participating works, the organizing committee has set up an independent audit committee composed of more than 60 internationally renowned French and overseas experts from different fields. The committee members include art appraisal experts, art historians and museum curators, constituting a set of authoritative and diversified academic review system. Each work of art on display is strictly examined and recognized by at least two independent experts who are not affiliated with the exhibitors, so that the authenticity of the work is checked at the source and its artistic and collection value is guaranteed to be highly credible.

Special Program: Focus on House Museums

Musée Nissim de Camondo

FAB Paris has always been committed to establishing in-depth partnerships with the most prestigious museums and private institutions in France. This year, the fair will present a special exhibition focusing on the Musée Nissim de Camondo, a collection of 18th-century French decorative arts. The museum is housed in a magnificent private residence (hôtel particulier) in the center of Paris, built in the early 1900s by French banker and art collector Moïse de Camondo (1860-1935), who, upon his death in 1936, bequeathed the entire residence with his private collection to the French State. Upon his death in 1936, Camondo bequeathed the entire mansion with its private collection to the French State and opened it to the public in memory of his son, Nissim, a pilot who was killed in World War I. The museum is currently closed for renovations. The museum is currently closed for renovations until 2026. This exhibition at FAB Paris will provide a rare opportunity for visitors to see these art treasures, which have not left their original location for nearly 90 years, and to experience first-hand the historical temperature and cultural memory that this house museum carries.

Special Exhibition: A Journey to the Boundless

An unprecedented joint exhibition

For the first time, several art dealers will work together to present an unprecedented joint exhibition, promoted by Georges-Philippe Vallois, owner of the Galerie d’Art Contemporain. Curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, former director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne (Centre Pompidou) and Kunsthalle Bern, the 140 square meter exhibition will be presented independently at the fair. Continuing Martin’s curatorial philosophy of pushing the boundaries of historical and cultural categorization, the exhibition will feature tribal art (Claes), medieval and Renaissance art (Brimo de Laroussilhe), contemporary art (Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois), rare books and manuscripts (Stéraphon), as well as a selection of the most important works of art in the world. (Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois), as well as rare books and manuscripts (Stéphane Clavreuil). All the exhibits have been carefully selected on the basis of their formal and linguistic similarities, and constitute an aesthetic dialog across time and space, and across disciplines.

Louis de Bayser, President of FAB Paris, said:

“We are looking forward to the fourth edition of the fair, which marks a new chapter in our development. Paris is at its most artistic in September, when collectors, curators and visitors from all over the world gather to immerse themselves in the cultural feast that the city has to offer.”

Editor’s Notes:

About FAB PARIS

Established in February 2022, FAB Paris (Fine Art & Antiques Paris) is the only cross-category collectors’ fair in Paris, and is a joint venture between two of France’s most prestigious art fairs, La Biennale des Antiquaires and Fine Arts Paris. La Biennale des Antiquaires and Fine Arts Paris, two of France’s most prestigious art fairs, have joined forces to create a new platform for high-end art that combines the resources, expertise and international reputation of both organizations. The first edition of the fair was held in November 2022 in the Carrousel of the Louvre, and the following year it moved to the temporary pavilion of the Grand Palais Éphémère; in 2024, the third edition of the fair took up residence in the newly restored Grand Palais, which will be its permanent home. The fair attracted more than 30,000 visitors from all over the world during its six-day run, and received an overwhelmingly positive response.

Founded in 1956 by André Malraux, a renowned French novelist and former Minister of Culture, the Biennale des Antiquaires de Paris has evolved over more than sixty years, and the event, held at the Grand Palais, has become one of the world’s most prestigious expositions of decorative arts, and one of the most emblematic cultural events in Paris. Fine Art Paris, on the other hand, was founded in 2017 and specializes in presenting museum-quality masterpieces of painting, drawing and sculpture. The inaugural edition was presented as a boutique salon with 34 exhibitors in a sophisticated and professional style. Under the leadership of then-president Louis de Bayser, the fair has grown from strength to strength, attracting 55 leading international art dealers in 2021.

FAB Paris is now organized by the Agence d’Événements Culturels (AEC), which is also responsible for the Salon du Dessin in Paris, and has organized the Paris Fine Arts Fair and the Paris Tableau, which focuses on classical art. Tableau.) For more information, please visit the official website: fabparis.com.

About the President of the fair

Louis de Bayser is President of FAB Paris (Fine Art and Antiques Fair) and the Salon du Dessin. Born in Paris in 1972, he comes from an internationally recognized family of art dealers. After completing his business studies, Louis continued the family tradition of studying and collecting classical master drawings. In 1998, as one of eleven children in the family, Louis, along with his three brothers, took over the Galerie de Bayser, which had been run by his parents, Bruno & Thérèse de Bayser, since the 1960s. The historic Parisian gallery was first founded in 1936 by its grandparents, Patrick & Rose-Anne de Bayser. In 2014, Louis de Bayser became president of the Salon des Arts de la Drawing in Paris, and in 2017 he led the creation of Fine Arts Paris, of which he is also president. Over the past few years, he has played a central role in promoting the growth and internationalization of these two Parisian art fairs. In 2022, when Fine Arts Paris merged with the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris and was officially named FAB Paris the following year, Louis de Besset continued to serve as President of the new fair, leading this international art event to new heights of convergence, innovation and globalization.