The idea for creating the gallery came in 1981 by a French musician, Edmond Rosenfeld. The name of the gallery can be translated as "mountain nymphs" - "oreades". In 1989, Rosenfeld, then the director of three branches of "LES OREADES" in France (Paris, Toulouse, and Loushonne), came to Russia, and in 1990 a fruitful cooperation between Russian artists and the gallery began. Therefore, we consider that year the creation of the Russian branch of  "Les Oreades".