The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris opened "Gustave Fayet: Collector – Artist Designer" on 9 October, the first exhibition devoted to a figure the luxury group's head has described as one of modern art's best-kept secrets. The show, running to 8 March 2027, assembles more than 600 works across four floors of the Frank Gehry-designed building in the Bois de Boulogne. Fayet, a professional winemaker from the Languedoc, acquired no fewer than 16 paintings by Van Gogh between 1901 and 1909, when the artist's market was still taking shape; ten of them appear in the exhibition, including "Public Garden in Arles (The Poet's Garden)" of October 1888, which he kept until his death. His collecting also extended to Paul Gauguin and Odilon Redon, placing him among France's earliest champions of modernism. The exhibition argues that Fayet was as much a maker as a buyer. He painted, worked in ceramics, illustrated books, curated museums, ran businesses and designed carpets, fabrics and wallpaper. His own work occupies the top floor of the show, presented alongside a 1901 self-portrait in which his first Van Gogh purchase — "Arena in Arles" of 1888 — hangs half-visible on the wall behind him. By pairing the collector's own production with his acquisitions, the Fondation reframes collecting as a creative act rather than a parallel hobby. The scale of the presentation makes it one of the foundation's most ambitious single-subject shows, and a rare opportunity to see how one early connoisseur's taste helped shape the market for Van Gogh before the artist's canon was fixed.