Rue La Boétie

The street you are walking on holds a heavy legacy within the history of modern art. At number twenty one, the legendary art dealer Paul Rosenberg operated a gallery that served as a cradle for the twentieth-century avant-garde. From nineteen ten until the onset of the Second World War, this building was a primary hub for the global art market, where Rosenberg championed works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Georges Braque. His influence was so profound that this stretch of the city became known as the French Florence, a place where the latest masterpieces of modernism were debuted to the world.