The Last Salonnier

The Last Salonnier

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 29, 2019

Runtime

0h 13m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

The Last Salonnier

Production Companies

Cadence Creative

Director

Paul Johnston

Description

In this documentary profile, Johnston invites the audience to step behind the "crushed velvet curtain" of Bruce Bailey’s life as an investment banker, lawyer, farmer and patron. The enthusiastic collector, who has worked with artists such as Marina Abramovic and Kent Monkman, is one of a few notable individuals who still host traditional art salons; a form of egalitarian lab for the breeding of ideas made popular in seventeenth-century France, where literary luminaries, artists and thinkers gathered to discuss philosophy, politics, art and other matters of the day.