Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Mak2, Home Sweet Home After Love Pool 1, 2023, oil and acrylic on canvas, triptych, 120 x 213 cm Photo courtesy of the artist and de Sarthe After founding de Sarthe in Paris in 1977, followed by spaces in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Hong Kong, French-American gallerist Pascal de Sarthe was joined in 2008 by his son Vincent, who spearheaded the gallery’s expansion to Beijing and then to Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2022. Their Beijing venture from 2014 to 2018 was the perfect example of their constant exchange of ideas and complicity. The gallery today represents the likes of Chan Ka Kiu, Eugene Lun, Caison Wang, Mak2, Zhong Wei, Lin Jingjing, Wang Xin, Emmett Potter, Kristin Bauer, Rick Levinson, Thomas Skomski and Zak Smith.
Did you have to convince your son to work with you in the family business or did he come to it naturally, having grown up immersed in art? I have two children and always told them that in my opinion, there are three important things to make you happy in life: a good partner and friends, a good job that you have great passion for and a good bed, as these are the three things that will occupy most of your time in life. Vincent’s oldest sister had never been interested in art and is enjoying great success in her own path. Although both were surrounded by art, Vincent has always been interested in art.
He could have been an artist! When he was a kid, he came to our storage to choose a contemporary artwor.
