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Collector, painter, designer, patron: Gustave Fayet built a modern-art world around Van Gogh, Gauguin and Redon — then nearly disappeared from the story himself.
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Don’t treat the second half as an appendix. Fayet’s own ceramics, textiles, illustrated books and designs explain why he collected the artists he did and how closely collecting and making were connected.
The blockbuster names are reason enough to go, but the stronger story is how one collector’s eye and one artist’s curiosity helped shape the history of modern art.
★★★★★ — Worth planning a Paris trip around.
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Gustave Fayet. Collector–Designer. Icons of Modern Art is on view at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, France, from 9 October 2026 to 8 March 2027. The exhibition occupies all the Fondation’s galleries and is organised in two parts: Fayet as collector, and Fayet as creator.
Its scale is remarkable. More than 255 works from Fayet’s collection, now scattered around the world, are reunited for the first time in roughly a century. Among them are 10 paintings by Vincent van Gogh, 78 works by Paul Gauguin and 88 by Odilon Redon, alongside Degas, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Signac, Bonnard, Vuillard and Matisse.
The second half overturns the idea of Fayet as simply a wealthy collector. Around 325 of his own creations reveal a restless practice spanning landscape painting, ceramics, watercolour, textile and carpet design, wallpaper, illustrated books and fashion. The exhibition therefore restores him as a participant in modernity, not merely someone who bought it.
About the artist / collector
Gustave Fayet (1865–1925) was a French painter, collector, patron, entrepreneur and decorative-arts designer. He assembled an adventurous collection of Post-Impressionist and Symbolist art while maintaining a prolific creative practice of his own.
Gustave Fayet — Collectionneur – Créateur. Icônes de l'art moderne
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