The Last Salonnier (movie)

The Last Salonnier (movie)

  • Production country: Canada
  • Producer: Paul Johnston
  • Production companies: Cadence Creative
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release date: 11/29/2019
  • Run time: 13 min.

Movie 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.

Actors

Bruce Bailey

Bruce Bailey

Role(s): Himself

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