Revamped Logo!

You may have noticed Galerie Michael has changed its logo color and added our motto "Building Museum Quality Collections One Work at a Time".

The motto for Galerie Michael was built on posterity rather than prosperity and takes a long term view working with the collector, much time and attention is in vested in building museum quality collections, one work at a time. This motto has built an unparalleled client base of close to 6000 collectors many of whom have been collecting with Galerie Michael from ten to fifteen and as many as thirty years.

Galerie Michael stands behind each and every work of art that we offer to our clients. If you are interested in building a museum collection you have come to the right place! Galerie Michael has been in business for over thirty years with professional staff equal to 100 years of combined fine art experience as well as two full time curators all of whom specialize in fine European paintings, drawings and prints from the 17th century to the present.

New Salons

GRAND UPPER SALON
The Upper Level will provide Galerie Michael's traditional museum-like quality and atmosphere. It will be partitioned into four sections, each section emphasizing one of the many genres Galerie Michael represents.

In addition to our traditional salons of Modern Masters and Old Masters, Galerie Michael has added two new contemporary wings to the gallery, featuring artists from the Florence School of Art, and the New Italian Mannerists! (look for future posts highlighting our contemporary artists)



GROUND SALON
Thanks to the design of our new location we have a Ground Salon which will feature fine art works, original lithographic posters, art Books and DVD's. Specially designed posters of Galerie Michael's Great Master Collection including Rembrandt, Picasso, Chagall, Miro, Dali, and Renoir will be offered.

The Gallery Cafe

In addition to Galerie Michael's new artists and salons we have added a gallery cafe where clients may relax and converse over art works while enjoying high tea, a frothy cappuccino or a bold espresso, at their leisure.

Galerie Michael's Grand Gallery!

Upon Much Anticipation,
Galerie Michael is Opening our New Grand Gallery Space on
The World Famous Via Rodeo!

Our Newest Location Is:
224 N. Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills CA 90210

Galerie Michael will be presenting a brand new contemporary look combined with our traditionally classic Galerie Michael style, designed by famed architect Cosimo Pizzulli, who has designed some of Beverly Hills finest locations. Our new grand gallery space is over 12,000 feet giving Galerie Michael the opportunity to exhibit historic artists: Rembrandt, Picasso, Chagall and Renoir and introducing a unique group of contemporary artists. A wing showcasing our new contemporary artists of the Florence School and important living artists of the Minimalists from Rome has been designed.

Viewing of Rare Works at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona

Directory of the Picasso Museum, Pepe Serra, presenting Michael Schwartz with their book “Imagenes Secretas Picasso y la estampa erotica japonesa,”which illustrates the ukiyo-e influence on Picasso.

Michael Schwartz and Pepe Serra, the Director of the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, provided a titillating interview for collectors. Serra showed seldom seen early works of Picasso created during the early ages of 10-12 highlighting his academic background. The collectors were additionally shown later works by Picasso including a version of Las Meninas, a 17^th century Velazquez painting, deconstructed by Picasso.

Picasso, Las Meninas, 1957 Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656

“From the time of his adolescence, Picasso adored Velázquez, whom he copied at the Prado Museum. A few months after seeing Las Meninas at the age of fourteen, his seven-year old blond sister María de la Concepción died from diphtheria. Picasso and his family (especially his father) never really recovered from their loss. This loss would follow Picasso for the rest of his life. In 1897, at the age of 16 – less than a year after the death of his sister, he produced his first sketch concerning Las Meninas characters – María Agustina (the head maid) and María Margarita (the infanta). It is no coincidence that both the infanta and his sister were blond. Between August and December in 1957 Picasso shut himself in the studio of his house, La Californie near Cannes, to face the challenge of Las Meninas. One unique piece of work is the origin of fifty-eight oil paintings: forty-four inspired in the model, nine little pigeons, three landscapes and two free interpretations. A whole series in which he plays with exterior and pictorial reality, art and life, to include views from the exterior into the series of paintings.”

One of the highlights of the day was the newest exhibition revealing the erotic ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints which influenced Picasso’s later works.

“Picasso never parted with any of his Japanese prints. It would not be surprising, then, if they had proved to be a source of inspiration at one time or another. Whilst he always shunned any show of exoticism, in the last years of his life Picasso devoted himself, with total freedom, to representing scenes of sexuality, as though in exorcism of approaching death. The drawings and prints of those final years are every bit as bold as the shunga prints with which they establish a compositional and stylistic dialogue.” - Museu Picasso of Barcelona.

The Picasso Museum is currently preparing a major exhibition of linocuts and has asked Mr. Schwartz’s assistance due to his vast expertise in this area.

Later in the tour, Michael and Serra lectured on many topics including those as the Vollard suite and La Celestines; many of these prints which you can find at Galerie Michael today such as the ones shown below.

Picasso, La Celestine, 1968 Picasso, Portrait of Vollard, II, 1937

Resounding Success on Our Mediterranean Tour!!!

Resounding Success on Our Mediterranean Tour!!!

Michael Schwartz and the great grandson of the renowned Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alex Renoir recently returned from a triumphant trip of the Mediterranean where they hosted a Mediterranean Art Connoisseur Tour on the Ruby Princess Cruise line. Amongst many stimulating topics, collectors were lectured on the fascinating life and career of the renowned Pierre Auguste Renoir by our very own Michael Schwartz and Artist, Alex Renoir.

Galerie Michael is privileged to represent the talented Artist, Alex Renoir, who showcased his work during this tour and sold an incredible 24 of 25 works.

Below you can experience the stop they made at the Renoir House now known as Musee Renoir (Les Collettes) near Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. This house, built in 1907, is located on acres of beautiful landscape and housed P.A. Renoir from 1908 until his death in 1919. The home’s stunning surroundings inspired many of his paintings and holds 20 portrait busts and portrait medallions which is said to represent the largest collection of Renoir sculptures in the world.

Various sculptures and medallions from the famous home of P.A. Renoir

Alex Renoir gives collectors a lecture on his titillating family history amongst the beautiful landscape once occupied by his Great Grandfather.

Alex Renoir provides the curatorial staff with information of his family tree.

Alex Renoir stands next to a decorative copy of Bust of Coco, which is one of the only original sculptures he personally created.

Michael Schwartz with Alex Renoir