Philippe Ségalot is a French art dealer.

Career

After studying at

HEC Paris HEC Paris (french: École des hautes études commerciales de Paris) is a business school, and one of the most prestigious and selective grandes écoles, located in Jouy-en-Josas, France. HEC offers Master in Management, MSc International Fi ...

, Ségalot worked for

Christie's Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie (auctioneer), James Christie. Its main premises are on King Street, St James's in London, at Rockefeller Center in New York City and at Alexandra House in Hong Kong. It is ...

from 1996–2001. During that period, he became the first to put contemporary furniture by designers such as Marc Newson into fine art auctions. In 2000, he enlisted three art students from Bard College to install one of his sales at Christie's. In 2002 Ségalot left Christie's and began working privately, operating GPS Partners alongside Franck Giraud and Lionel Pissarro, in New York and Paris. At the sale of

Marion Lambert Baroness Marion Lambert (1943 – 28 May 2016) was a Swiss art collector, and the wife of Baron Philippe Lambert of the Bank Brussels Lambert banking dynasty. She was described as "one of the first collectors and patrons of contemporary photograp ...

's collection at Phillips, de Pury & Company in 2004, he purchased Barbara Kruger's ''I Shop Therefore I Am.'' (1983) for $601,600, a record for the artist's work at auction. In 2008, he secured Yves Klein's ''MG9'' (1962) and '' IKB1'' (1960) from the collection of German industrialist Walther Lauffs for $ million and $ million, respectively. Also in 2008, he negotiated the private sale of Andy Warhol's ''

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'' (1963) from the collection of

Annibale Berlingieri Annibale Berlingieri is an Italian heir and art collector, best known for his 2008 sale of Andy Warhol's painting ''Eight Elvises'' for $100 million. He first commissioned a work of art in 1970, when he had Christo wrap an old carriage at his coun ...

for $ million. After Giraud left the partnership in 2011, Ségalot and Pissarro continued to operate together from 2012 on. In 2015, Ségalot joined forces with French furniture dealer François Laffanour on acquiring a collection of about 30 pieces of Shaker furniture which they sold at TEFAF. Later that year, he bought

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's ''Untitled'' (1990) for $ million.Nate Freeman (November 10, 2015)
Christie’s $331.8 M. Postwar Auction Offloads a Record Bourgeois—and an Undervalued Warhol—En Route to Modest Total Sales
'' ARTnews''.

Recognition

In 2014, '' The Guardian'' named Ségalot in their "Movers and makers: the most powerful people in the art world".

References

Living people French art dealers Year of birth missing (living people) {{France-bio-stub