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Philippe Segalot left Paris to run Christie's contemporary art department for five years before starting his own art-consultancy business with.
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Philippe Ségalot
French art dealer
Philippe Ségalot is a French art dealer.
Career
After studying at HEC Paris, Ségalot worked for Christie's from 1996–2001.
During that period, he became the first to put contemporary furniture by designers such as Marc Newson into fine art auctions. In 2000, he enlisted three art students from Bard College to install one of his sales at Christie's.[1]
In 2002 Ségalot left Christie's and began working privately,[2] operating GPS Partners alongside Franck Giraud and Lionel Pissarro, in New York and Paris.[3][4] At the sale of Marion Lambert's collection at Phillips, de Pury & Company in 2004, he purchased Barbara Kruger's I Shop Therefore I Am. (1983) for $601,600, a record for the artist's work at auction.[5] In 2008, he secured Yves Klein's MG9 (1962) and IKB1 (1960) from the collection of German industrialist Walther Lauffs for $33.3 million and $24.6 million, respective