Gilles Dyan
Gilles Dyan is a French art dealer and founder and chairman of Opera Gallery, a modern and contemporary art gallery with sixteen exhibition spaces worldwide.
Early life
Dyan was born on 1 October 1960 in Tunis, Tunisia, to a couple who were both schoolteachers. He was raised and educated in Paris.Career
Dyan originally studied and worked in marketing, and earned a living selling art prints, before opening the first Opera Gallery, in Singapore in 1994, followed shortly afterwards by another in Rue Saint-Honoré, in Paris, France. There are now sixteen outlets. They deal in works by modern masters, and work with contemporary artists such as David Kim Whittaker and Andy Denzler.He became a member of the European Chamber of Expert-Advisors in Fine Art in 2000.
In 2021 he set up a 100 million euro investment fund, regulated in Luxembourg, to support the acquisition of works for resale and to provide guarantees at auction.