The Galerie Berès, situated on the Left Bank facing the Louvre, was founded by Huguette Berès in 1951 and is now run by Anisabelle Berès, her daughter The gallery’s major venue covers the major avant-garde trends in the 19th and 20th century, from the Barbizon School with such luminaries as Corot, Harpignies and Jongkind, which ushered in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, to the modernist painting, i.e. Cubism, Abstract art, and the European Lyrical Abstraction.