About
For three generations, the Galerie SCHMIT is reputed, worldwide as well as in France, for its competence and business acumen in dealing with FRENCH MASTERS of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, such as des :
Balthus - Bazille - Bonnard - Boudin - Braque - Caillebotte - Cassatt - Cézanne - Chagall - Chassériau - Corot - Courbet - Cross - Daumier - Degas - Delacroix - Derain - Van Dongen -Dufy - Fantin-latour - Gauguin - Giacometti - Van Gogh - Gris - Jongkind - KLEE - LAURENCIN - LÉGER - LÉPINE - MAILLOL - MANET - MARQUET - MATISSE - MIRO - MODIGLIANI - MONET - MORISOT - PICASSO - PISSARRO - PRINCETEAU - REDON - RENOIR - ROUAULT - ROUSSEAU - SARGENT - SEURAT - SIGNAC - SISLEY - SOUTINE - DE STAEL - TOULOUSE–LAUTREC - UTRILLO - VILLON - VLAMINCK - VUILLARD - ZADKINE …
The GALERIE SCHMIT, located between the Place de la Concorde and Place Vendôme, at 396 Rue Saint-Honoré within the first district, exhibits on two levels a unique collection of works by the great FRENCH MASTERS of the XIXth and XXth Centuries. Side by side are shown Paintings, Pastels, Watercolours, Drawings, Sculptures representative of the great movements of French Art :
Pre-Impressionism, Impressionism, Pointillism, Nabi, Fauvism, Cubism, Paris School, Montparnasse and Montmartre Schools, without forgetting all the other French Modern painters.
The GALERIE SCHMIT, founded in 1929 by Mr. Jean Schmit, Manuel Schmit’s grandfather, specialized in the trade of Old Master paintings of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries. He built up a collection of art books comprising about 30.000 volumes in which included sale catalogues from the XVIIIth Century to the present day. It is probably the most important private collection of art books in the world which is today a remarkable tool.
On his father’s retirement Mr. Robert Schmit, Jean Schmit’s son, entered the firm in 1944 and set up at the present address in 1948. He gave up dealing Old Master paintings to devote himself entirely to paintings by great French Masters of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, from Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, to Picasso, Chagall, de Staël, Villon… At the same time, as from 1950, he began to take an interest in the French painter Eugène BOUDIN ( 1824 - 1898 ). He organised in 1965 a “One Man Show” on Boudin which was exhibited on three floors comprising 172 paintings and works on paper.
