Photos: The French Collection: Art Dealer Yvon Lambert Opens Up His Home
After closing his eponymous gallery, Yvon Lambert donated a trove of contemporary art to his native France. Now that his collection has opened in Avignon, the legendary dealer grants Christopher Bagley a rare glimpse into his private world.
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Yvon Lambert, at Collection Lambert, in Avignon.
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An installation view of the inaugural exhibition, featuring Edouard Bernard Debat-Ponsan’s Une Porte du Louvre le Jour de la Saint-Barthélémy, 1880, and work by Roni Horn and Lawrence Weiner.
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The dining room, with a grid of Goldin’s photographs on the far wall.
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In the living room is an assemblage of Greek, Roman, and 19th-century sculpture parts.
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An antique sculpture of Christ is affixed to a dining room chair.
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The living room.
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Catholic reliquaries under bell jars.
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The living room mantelpiece, with works by Cy Twombly and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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A view into the living room.
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On the floor in a bedroom, a 19th-century painting by Léon Bonnat.
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A guest room in Lambert’s house—the vintage Fortuny textile above the bed was a gift from Nan Goldin.
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The gardens of Lambert’s house in Avignon.
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Looking skyward from the new atrium that connects the two 18th-century buildings that house the collection.
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A gallery in Collection Lambert, with Julian Schnabel’s Silencio, 1988, and works by Basquiat and Louis Jammes.
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Donkeys in Lambert’s garden.
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Lambert in his driveway.
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Vincent Ganivet’s sculpture Entrevous, 2010, in a courtyard at Collection Lambert.
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A statue of Mercury in Lambert’s garden.
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At the Collection (in foreground, from left), a Donald Judd sculpture; Richard Serra’s Untitled (Equal and Diagonally Opposite Corners), 1990; and Diogo Pimentão’s Embrace (Figure), 2012.
Art © Judd Foundation. Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
