Why it belongs in ORBIS
Galerie Didier Aaron has dealt in works of art since 1923. The Paris gallery stands at 152 Boulevard Haussmann, with further rooms in New York and London. Paintings, drawings and sculpture form the three departments. The house names the Getty Museum, the National Gallery in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art among its clients.
Galerie Didier Aaron has dealt in works of art since 1923, and it works today from three addresses. Paris holds the principal gallery at 152 Boulevard Haussmann in the eighth arrondissement. Didier Aaron Inc. keeps a New York room at 32 East 67th Street, and Didier Aaron (London) Ltd. trades from 53 Davies Street. The stock divides into three departments. Paintings, drawings and sculpture each carry their own catalogue on the gallery site. The house states that its clients include the principal French museums as well as foreign institutions, among them the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the National Gallery in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery in London. That client list explains the pace of the business. Buying at this level happens at a handful of fairs each year rather than off a shop floor. The gallery calendar records Master Drawings New York in January, TEFAF in March and the Salon du Dessin at the end of that same month. A virtual tour of the TEFAF presentation stays on the site after the fair closes. Nothing here is browsable stock in the ordinary sense, and the Paris room works by appointment more than by footfall. A buyer here starts from the catalogue rather than from the shop window.