Photos: Emmanuel Perrotin: French Connection
He helped make Takashi Murakami a superstar and launched the career of Damien Hirst. Now the ballsy Parisian dealer has set his sights on New York.
Perrotin dressed in a giant pink penis costume with bunny ears—part of an exhibition by Maurizio Cattelan, at the Perrotin gallery in Paris in 1995. Courtesy of Maurizio Cattelan’s Archive and Galerie Perrotin.
Perrotin with Paola Pivi’s Who Told You White Men Can Jump?, at the opening of his New York gallery in September 2013. Photograph by Guillaume Ziccarelli; courtesy of Galerie Perrotin.
KAWS’s “Pass the Blame” show, New York, 2013. Photograph by Guillaume Ziccarelli; courtesy of Galerie Perrotin.
Swizz Beatz, Alicia Keys, KAWS, Helen Lasichanh, and Pharrell Williams at the opening. Photograph by BFAnyc.com.
View of the Perrotin gallery’s 25th anniversary exhibition in Lille, 2013. Courtesy of ADAGP/ Galerie Perrotin.
Damien Hirst and his With Dead Head, 1991. Courtesy of Galerie Perrotin.