Sitting in his Paris apartment, in an 18th-century building with views of the Seine and the Louvre Museum, Thaddaeus Ropac is discussing his lifelong passion: art. Born and raised in Austria, and now a quite youthful 65 years old, he is wearing his uniform of an impeccably tailored dark suit and a crisp white dress shirt. Since opening his first gallery in 1983, in a modest space in Salzburg, Ropac has championed leading contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Gilbert & George, Antony Gormley, Alex Katz, Lisa Brice, and Elizabeth Peyton. “We have worked with some of the most important artists of our time, and this needs to be documented,” says Ropac. “The gallery is a footnote, in a sense, but the…
