{"id":2032764,"date":"2020-09-17T14:21:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T12:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2020\/09\/17\/art-paris-2020-rises-to-the-challenge-and-is-a-huge-success\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:25:33","slug":"art-paris-2020-rises-to-the-challenge-and-is-a-huge-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2020\/09\/17\/art-paris-2020-rises-to-the-challenge-and-is-a-huge-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Paris 2020 rises to the challenge and is a huge success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

All eyes were riveted on Art Paris<\/a>, the modern and contemporary art fair that came to an enthusiastic close on Sunday September 13 under the sunny vault of the Grand Palais. The art market’s first major event in over six months, this 22nd edition, which brought together 112 galleries from 15 countries, ended with a resounding success. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Quality visitor numbers despite the health situation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

Overall attendance was 56,931. The strict application of sanitary measures led to a voluntary lowering of the visitor capacity to 3,000 people at any given time, instead of the 5,000 authorized in the Grand Palais, and to a modification of the vernissage flows, which were smoothed out over the entire length of the show during private morning openings from 10am to 12pm, in order to guarantee a high level of safety for exhibitors and visitors alike, and avoid any crowds. While the number of general public visitors was down 10% on 2019 (which welcomed 63,257 people), attendance by collectors and heads of institutions leapt to +25% on 2019, with a total of 23,218 professional and VIP guests. <\/p>\n\n

All visitors underlined Art Paris’s boldness and tenacity in staging a physical edition against all odds, after being postponed in the spring, reinvented online, and reborn from September 10 to 13. This historic edition saw an unprecedented rallying of all French collectors and institutions, who turned out in force to support the work of the galleries and artists they represent. They also underlined the vitality of the French art scene, embodied by Ga\u00ebl Charbau’s focus, the quality of the galleries’ displays, which blended the generations, such as Pauline Pavec’s stand, which orchestrated a meeting between Jacques Pr\u00e9vert and the very young artist Mathilde Denize, and the upmarket nature of the gallery list, with the arrival of heavyweights such as Perrotin. <\/p>\n\n

The fair welcomed some thirty circles of museum friends, mainly from France (due to travel restrictions) and numerous personalities such as Brigitte Macron, Roselyne Bachelot, Catherine Frot, Michel-Edouard Leclerc, Alain Ducasse….<\/p>\n\n

Seventy guided tours were organized for collectors with the help of the Observatoire de l’art contemporain. Nearly 450 journalists were accredited. <\/p>\n\n