Philippe Ségalot Explained

Philippe Ségalot is a French art dealer.

Career

After studying at HEC Paris, Ségalot worked for Christie's 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.^[1]

In 2002 Ségalot left Christie's and began working privately,^[2] operating GPS Partners alongside Franck Giraud and Lionel Pissarro, in New York and Paris.^{[3] [4]} At the sale of Marion Lambert'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.^[5] 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.^[6] Also in 2008, he negotiated the private sale of Andy Warhol's Eight Elvises (1963) from the collection of Annibale Berlingieri for $ million.^[7]

After Giraud left the partnership in 2011, Ségalot and Pissarro continued to operate together from 2012 on.^[8] 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.^{[9] [10]} Later that year, he bought Christopher Wool's Untitled (1990) for $ million.^[11]

Recognition

In 2014, The Guardian named Ségalot in their "Movers and makers: the most powerful people in the art world".^[12]

Notes and References

1. Carol Vogel (September 23, 2010), Auction World’s Blast of Brash New York Times.
2. Carol Vogel (September 23, 2010), Auction World’s Blast of Brash New York Times.
3. Web site: Philippe Segalot. artcaste.com. 9 September 2016.
4. Carol Vogel (September 23, 2010), Auction World’s Blast of Brash New York Times.
5. Carol Vogel (November 9, 2004), An Appropriate Finale for a $9.2 Million Auction New York Times.
6. Carol Vogel (May 15, 2008), Bacon triptych auctioned for record $86 million International Herald Tribune.
7. The Pop master's highs and lows, The Economist, 26 November 2009.
8. Andrew Russeth (November 17, 2011), Giraud, Pissarro, Ségalot Will End Tripartite Partnership The New York Observer.
9. Carol Vogel (December 4, 2014), A European Show for Shaker Furniture New York Times.
10. Scott Reyburn (March 12, 2015), European Fine Art Fair Showcases Shaker Furniture New York Times.
11. 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.
12. News: Farago. Jason. Movers and makers: the most powerful people in the art world. 30 May 2014. The Guardian. 8 May 2014.