The Impossible Collection Of Art by Philippe Segalot

¿Anything is art if an artist says it is.¿ ¿ Marcel Duchamp

A valuable work of art is today¿s new intellectual currency. Modern art draws attention from a new jet set: For media moguls, hedge-fund managers and Hollywood darlings, collecting is the entrée into an exclusive global community. Internationally renowned art dealers Philippe Ségalot and Franck Giraud build acclaimed collections for high-profile connoisseurs. For The Impossible Collection of Art, Ségalot and Giraud curate the ideal modern art collection, in which money is no object and anything is possible. Whether locked in a museum¿s vault or available at the tip of a paddle, these 100 exceptional artworks form a unique perspective on the greatest artistic achievements of the twentieth century, illuminated in the introduction by Joachim Pissarro, great-grandson of the famous artist Camille, Professor Emeritus of Hunter College/CUNY and former curator at New York¿s Museum of Modern Art.

With the perspective of fifteen years, Ségalot and Giraud have updated The Impossible Collection of Art 2nd edition with eleven works from artists including Henri Rousseau, Man Ray, Marlene Dumas, Kerry James Marshall and Elizabeth Peyton. Inviting endless discussion, this handcrafted Ultimate Collection volume encourages art history buffs and armchair aficionados alike to create their own dream Impossible Collection.

Philippe Ségalot joined Christie¿s in New York in 1996 as contemporary art specialist before becoming the company¿s international head of contemporary art. Franck Giraud joined Christie¿s in New York as impressionist and modern art specialist in 1988 and became the international head of impressionist and modern art at Christie¿s in 1996. The two formed the New York¿ and Paris-based art consultancy firm Giraud.Pissarro.Ségalot with partner Lionel Pissarro in 2001. After Giraud retired in 2012, the company became Ségalot LP and is focused on twentieth- and twenty-first-century art under the direction of Philippe Ségalot. Art historian Joachim Pissarro is Professor Emeritus of Hunter College/CUNY. He is a founding member of Global Museums Strategies Group (together with Philippe de Montebello and Jennifer Stockman)