About Gallery
Galerie Michael is a unique fine art gallery located on the famous Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills for over thirty years. The gallery’s model is built on posterity rather than prosperity, which means a long term view on working with collectors in “building museum quality collections, one work at a time”. The model has created an unparalleled client base of close to 7,500 collectors, many of whom have been collecting with Galerie Michael for thirty years.
An important aspect of Galerie Michael’s ongoing success is that customers are treated as business partners with full access to Galerie Michael’s planning, market expertise, curatorial knowledge, and staff of fine art scholars. Collections built focus on artwork in the upper 25% of the artists’ oeuvre, emphasizing rarity, historic importance, ground-breaking innovations, demand, ultimate sale-ability, potential appreciation and artistic insight. All collections are cataloged by the gallery’s in-house curatorial department and come with a Galerie Michael Certificate of Authenticity.
The gallery is known internationally for its leading edge in 17th to 20th Century master works, mounting over eighteen annual exhibitions, including Barbizon and the Journey to Impressionism, Picasso and the Artist’s Muse, Rembrandt: A Comparative View and Renoir and the Impressionists. Exhibits are accompanied by catalogues with essays written by scholars and critics who support the gallery’s philosophy of acquiring fine art through ongoing education.
The Gallery hosts tours and lectures at worldwide museums as well as in Los Angeles. Gallery staff and clients have taken tours to the town of Barbizon, the birth place of Plein-Aire painting, and given lectures at the Musée de l’École de Barbizon in France. Closer to home, the gallery has arranged and conducted tours and lectures at LACMA, The J. Paul Getty Museum and The Norton Simon Museum.
Galerie Michael creates fine art collections for exhibit on the museum circuit. Through scholarly catalogues and museum affiliations, these collections have been on exhibition in the US as well as Europe. Importantly, they follow a formula that increases the value of the collection as a whole; creates prestige for the owners of the collection and brings historic insights to the public. These collections create a revenue stream and fine art exposure for the museums and the gallery benefits by international branding associated with the collections.
Galerie Michael’s long-term commitment to collector ethics, access to fine art, education and art collecting along with it’s prestigious membership in the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA), it has established itself as one of the most highly regarded, successful galleries in the United States and worldwide.
Michael Schwartz – CEO and Owner
Galerie Michael is a unique fine art gallery located on the famous Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills for over thirty years. The gallery’s model is built on posterity rather than prosperity, which means a long term view on working with collectors in “building museum quality collections, one work at a time”. The model has created an unparalleled client base of close to 7,500 collectors, many of whom have been collecting with Galerie Michael for thirty years.
An important aspect of Galerie Michael’s ongoing success is that customers are treated as business partners with full access to Galerie Michael’s planning, market expertise, curatorial knowledge, and staff of fine art scholars. Collections built focus on artwork in the upper 25% of the artists’ oeuvre, emphasizing rarity, historic importance, ground-breaking innovations, demand, ultimate sale-ability, potential appreciation and artistic insight. All collections are catalogued by the gallery’s in-house curatorial department and come with a Galerie Michael Certificate of Authenticity.
The gallery is known internationally for its leading edge in 17th to 20th Century master works, mounting over eighteen annual exhibitions, including Barbizon and the Journey to Impressionism, Picasso and the Artist’s Muse, Rembrandt: A Comparative View and Renoir and the Impressionists. Exhibits are accompanied by catalogues with essays written by scholars and critics who support the gallery’s philosophy of acquiring fine art through ongoing education.
The Gallery hosts tours and lectures at worldwide museums as well as in Los Angeles. Gallery staff and clients have taken tours to the town of Barbizon, the birth place of Plein-Aire painting, and given lectures at the Musée de l’École de Barbizon in France. Closer to home, the gallery has arranged and conducted tours and lectures at LACMA, The J. Paul Getty Museum and The Norton Simon Museum.
Galerie Michael creates fine art collections for exhibit on the museum circuit. Through scholarly catalogues and museum affiliations, these collections have been on exhibition in the US as well as Europe. Importantly, they follow a formula that increases the value of the collection as a whole; creates prestige for the owners of the collection and brings historic insights to the public. These collections create a revenue stream and fine art exposure for the museums and the gallery benefits by international branding associated with the collections.
Galerie Michael’s long-term commitment to collector ethics, access to fine art, education and art collecting along with it’s prestigious membership in the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA), it has established itself as one of the most highly regarded, successful galleries in the United States and worldwide.
Services
- Certification of Authenticity
- Complementary certified appraisals for insurance, estate, donation or tax purposes
- Curatorial research
- Complete painting and paper conservation
- Custom museum quality framing
- Professional packaging and world-wide shipping
- Two year exchange privilege on works purchased from the gallery
- Artwork presented is owned by the gallery
- Personal art consultant to advise and assist clients with acquisitions
- Building museum quality collections
- Access to a million dollar art library
- Saturday VIP lectures by world renowned art historians and critics
- Search worldwide to find specific works
- Intimate relationships with Master Artists Families
- Over 65 Years of art experience and knowledge
- Respected International fine art gallery with worldwide references
- Museum curated traveling exhibitions worldwide
- Members of the Fine Art Dealers Association
- Located on the famous Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills for over 30 years
- VIP entrance and private viewings
- 2 hr Complementary parking
Relationships with Master Artist Families
Galerie Michael has built and established long term relationships with the families of the impressionist masters, Renoir, Cézanne and Pissarro. Along with members of the Picasso family and their representatives, the Mourlot family and Picasso expert Brigitte Baer. The gallery has established strong relationships with the printers of the Modern Masters, Picasso, Chagall and Miró.
Renowned scholars such as Gary Schwartz, Rembrandt author and authority, Dr. Petra Chu, Gabriel Weisberg, , and Alexandra Murphy, leading 19th century Plien Aire authors and scholars have published and lectured throughout the years. Contributing to the Galerie Michael commitment to inform and educate clients in the history and acquisition of fine art.
Currently, Galerie Michael exclusively represents and exhibits the works of Alexandre Renoir, Great Grandson of Impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir.
