ABSTRACT :
Galerie Lelong’s original founding by Aimé Maeght in 1945 saw the presentation of modernist icons including Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Antoni Tàpies, Francis Bacon and Eduardo Chillida.? After Maeght’s death in 1981, the gallery adopted its current structure with directors and equal shareholders Jacques Dupin, Daniel Lelong and Jean Frémon (Jacques Dupin died in 2012, the same year Daniel Lelong retired from his position of CEO and was replaced by Jean Frémon as President and CEO of both galleries, Paris and New York). From 1981 on, began a period of adding influential artists such as Pierre Alechinsky, Louise Bourgeois, Konrad Klapheck and Jannis Kounellis, among others. The gallery in New York was founded in 1985, and is directed by Mary Sabbatino since 1990, who has been a leading proponent in the introduction of important figures from Latin America into the critical discourse: Alfredo Jaar, Ana Mendieta, Cildo Meireles, and Zilia Sánchez.
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