Gilles Dyan | |
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Born | 1 October 1960
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Occupation |
Art dealer
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Gilles Dyan (born 1960) is a French art dealer and founder and chairman of Opera Gallery, a modern and contemporary art gallery with sixteen exhibition spaces worldwide. [1] [2] [3]
Dyan was born on 1 October 1960 in Tunis, Tunisia, to a couple who were both schoolteachers. [4] He was raised and educated in Paris. [3] [5]
Dyan originally studied and worked in marketing, and earned a living selling art prints, before opening the first Opera Gallery, in Singapore in 1994, [2] [3] followed shortly afterwards by another in Rue Saint-Honoré, in Paris, France. [6] There are now sixteen outlets. [3] They deal in works by modern masters (e.g. Picasso and Chagall), and work with contemporary artists such as David Kim Whittaker and Andy Denzler. [2]
He became a member of the European Chamber of Expert-Advisors in Fine Art in 2000. [3] [6]
In 2021 he set up a 100 million euro investment fund, regulated in Luxembourg, to support the acquisition of works for resale and to provide guarantees at auction. [7]