Between 1979 and 1986, Bernard Zürcher was a curator at the Musée de l’Orangerie, then the Palais de Tokyo. Between 1987 and 1990 he wrote several books on modern art, including Braque, vie et oeuvre (L’Office du Livre / Rizzoli, 1988) and Les Fauves (Hazan, 1995). In 1992, turning his back on modern art, he and his wife Gwenolee founded a contemporary art gallery, Galerie Zürcher, in Paris, and in 2009 a second, Zürcher Gallery, in New York.
