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Opera Gallery to hold 30-year anniversary exhibition in Singapore

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PHOTO: OPERA GALLERY

Opera Gallery is marking its 30th anniversary with an exhibition titled The Collector 1994.

PHOTO: OPERA GALLERY

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SINGAPORE – An international gallery with 16 locations around the world started its 30-year journey right here in Singapore.

In 1994, Frenchman Gilles Dyan was hawking art prints, lithographs and cheaper works by young contemporary artists when a representative from Singapore approached him in Paris with an unusual proposition – travel halfway around the world to open a booth at Tresors, Singapore’s first international art fair in HarbourFront that year.

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