From June 6 to July 12 2025 

It’s already been ten years since I fell in love with this address!

In November 2014, when I was looking for a new exhibition space, I pushed open the door of 205 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. The gallery, though in a state of disrepair, immediately seduced me. With its large frontage, proportions and high ceilings, it was the perfect setting to showcase the sculptures I wanted to exhibit. A few months later, the gallery was refurbished and brought up to date, and we celebrated its inauguration: we now had a gallery designed to present and showcase sculpture. But what sculpture?

Over the years, and thanks to a great deal of research, I have endeavored to be ever more demanding when it comes to the choice and quality of the works presented, whether in terms of the artist, the model or its execution. Thus my first Bugatti Il y arrivera, my first Rodin L’âge d’airain in cast iron by Alexis Rudier, followed by a rare Panthère noire by Pompon, or Barye’s exceptional sculpture Angélique et Roger montés sur l’hippogriffe (bouche ouverte), of which only three exist… And these carefully selected works have met their collectors through wonderful exchanges, new friendships and unforgettable moments of sharing.

I’d like to pay tribute to them all, but I can’t mention them all here. They too have contributed to developing my taste, my concern for quality and my thirst for discovery.

Museums and institutions also play an important role in the gallery’s reputation. For example, the Musée Rodin was able to acquire the Buste de jeune femme aux roses dans les cheveux  by the eponymous master, which I presented to them, and more recently, the Étude pour le vase, sujet pastoral by Henry Cros, which joined the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.  I should also mention our partnership with the endearing Musée Jules Desbois in Parçay-les-Pins, which has enabled us to rediscover this artist, who is very dear to me, and whose catalog of works is currently in preparation.

Finally, for the past ten years, we have been organizing exhibitions on major themes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century sculpture, illustrated by masterpieces or even unique works, such as Les sculpteurs du Jardin des Plantes; Le Groupe des Douze; Rodin, maître, praticiens et amis... In this way, I also seek to highlight artists who are particularly important to me, such as Antoine-Louis Barye, of course, but also Jules Dalou, for whom there hasn’t been an exhibition since the Petit Palais in 2013, and Georges-Lucien Guyot.

Thanks to the history written every day within its walls, the Galerie du Faubourg has offered us ten years of shared passion. Thank you all for having accompanied us to this point. Let’s keep going!

Nicolas Bourriaud