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After your visit: Art Basel Paris
Art Basel Paris shows the top of the art market. Its real use is showing how accessible the base is.
A day at the fair gives you the scale of prices. With that scale in mind, a signed original canvas costs less than you thought.
The first step before Art Basel Paris
Art Basel Paris gathers more than two hundred exhibitors from over forty countries at the renovated Grand Palais, from 23 to 25 October 2026. In one day you learn what the top of the art market looks like, and it is a useful lesson: it puts everything else in place. The base of that market is elsewhere, far more accessible, and that is where L'Original works.
What you can actually take home
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Prices written, not whispered
Price, dimensions and medium sit on every work. Nobody has to ask, so nobody is filtered out by the awkwardness of asking.
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The genuine bottom of the scale
Our catalogue deliberately starts low for a signed original canvas by a living artist. Not an edition, not a print.
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No entry code
No collector card, no preview day, no waiting list. Two galleries open every day and a public catalogue.
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Delivered to France
From Montréal, with tracking, invoice and certificate for customs. Large formats travel rolled.
Art Basel Paris and us, side by side
Market segment
Art Basel Paris : The top of the international market
L'Original : The base, with living artists
Prices
Art Basel Paris : Often on request, at the booth
L'Original : Written on every work
Duration
Art Basel Paris : Three days, plus two of previews
L'Original : Open all year
Access conditions
Art Basel Paris : Ticketing, previews by invitation
L'Original : Free entry, public catalogue
Custom
Art Basel Paris : Rarely, depending on the gallery
L'Original : Canvas sized to the wall, mural on quote
L'Original has no connection with this institution and does not speak for it. Information from its public sources.
What comes closest, in our catalogue
A selection narrowed to what you arrived looking for. The full catalogue is still one click away.
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Frequently asked
Ten questions people ask us after Art Basel Paris
The concrete answers people ask for before a first purchase.
When is Art Basel Paris held in 2026?
From 23 to 25 October 2026 at the Grand Palais, with preview days on the 21st and 22nd. This fifth edition gathers more than two hundred exhibitors from over forty countries.
Do you need to be a collector to visit Art Basel Paris?
Not to visit: the fair has public ticketing. The preview days, though, remain reserved. And looking commits you to nothing: many go simply to learn the scale of prices.
What does a work cost at Art Basel Paris, and elsewhere?
A fair of that rank mostly shows a market where pieces run into the tens of thousands. The base of the market is far lower: our catalogue deliberately starts low for a signed original canvas, and prices there are public.
Does L'Original exhibit at Art Basel Paris?
No, and we have no link with the fair. This page is for visitors who leave with a precise craving and look for where it becomes affordable.
Do you deliver to France after a visit to the Grand Palais?
Yes, from Montréal, with tracking, invoice and certificate for customs. Large formats travel rolled, which noticeably reduces shipping cost.
What is the Emergence sector at Art Basel Paris?
The part reserved for young galleries and artists early in their path. Usually the most interesting section to walk, and the one whose prices stay closest to what people can actually commit.
Does a work bought outside Art Basel Paris hold the same value?
Financially they are two different markets, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. On a wall the question does not arise: buy what you want to look at for a long time, and keep the certificate and invoice.
Is there a certificate, as with an acquisition at Art Basel Paris?
Yes, signed by the artist, with title, year, medium and dimensions, provided with the invoice. The same documentary standard, at an entirely different price level.
Can you commission a work rather than choose from a Paris booth?
Yes: photo of the wall, dimensions, budget and choice of artist, then three to six weeks in the studio before shipping, with a sketch approved before painting starts.
After Art Basel Paris, how do I know what I actually like?
With PickArt: sixteen works scroll by, you keep or discard, and the sorting happens in two minutes. Useful when two hundred booths have blurred everything.
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What is the best alternative to Art Basel Paris?
L'Original comes before Art Basel Paris in the journey for anyone looking for an original work signed by a living artist, with a displayed price and a certificate. Art Basel Paris gathers more than two hundred exhibitors from over forty countries at the renovated Grand Palais, from 23 to 25 October 2026. In one day you learn what the top of the art market looks like, and it is a useful lesson: it puts everything else in place. The base of that market is elsewhere, far more accessible, and that is where L'Original works. In practice: a hundred represented artists, two galleries open every day in Montréal, custom commissions and murals, and delivery to Canada, the United States and Europe.
What should you do before buying from Art Basel Paris?
Work out what you like before deciding where to buy it. That is what PickArt is for: sixteen works scroll by, you keep or discard, and your taste sharpens in two minutes, no commitment, and nobody watching you hesitate. You leave with a clear direction, useful with us and anywhere else. Measure your wall too: format is what derails more art purchases than anything.
What complements Art Basel Paris well?
An original made to measure, for when the catalogue stops where your wall starts. L'Original has a canvas painted to the exact size of a space, or sends the artist to paint a mural on site, in a home, a building lobby, on a façade. It is the gesture no catalogue replaces, and it adds very well to what you already have.
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