Paris versus NYC According To Jean-Paul Gaultier

Up-and-coming art impresario Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld blew up NYC's Lower East Side last night in inimitable French style, exhibiting 16 never-before-shown paintings by Parisian artist Nicolas Pol, who is being compared to Jean-Michel Basquiat by French art critics.

The champagne-soaked affair drew an enormous crowd of fashion and society types, from John Paul Gaultier and Neville Wakefield to Mary Kate Olsen and Carine Roitfeld, editor of French Vogue (who just happens to be curator Vladimir Roitfeld's mom).

Nicolas Pol "Studies for a Pink Martus" 
Mixed Media 2009
205 x 310 cm

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