Through more than two hundred vintage photographic prints, this volume presents an in-depth and original window into Brassaï’s oeuvre.
The Frits Lugt Collection, which is housed in the Institut Néerlandais in Paris, comprises the almost complete graphic oeuvre of Rembrandt.
Die französischen öffentlichen Sammlungen bewahren heute mehr als fünfhundert, im Heiligen Römischen Reich vom Spätmittelalter bis zur Renaissance geschaffene Malereien.
Recognized today as one of France's leading artists, Bernar Venet's work is exhibited all over the world. While his monumental steel sculptures are widely distributed, his early works, from the late 1960s, are much less well known to the general public.
Lee Miller in Print is the culmination of years of research into Miller’s published body of work. This research has uncovered numerous previously unknown examples of Miller’s work in the archives of dozens of magazines – from well-known titles such as Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue to small-circulation avant-garde periodicals.
Presenting exclusively works from the Pinault Collection, the exhibition and its catalogue bring together a vast selection of pieces produced mainly between the 1980s and the present day, half of which are being exhibited for the first time by the Pinault Collection. The exhibition highlights François Pinault's passion for contemporary art that is...
In the 1980s, Samantha McEwen was one of the few women to exhibit twice in the famous Tony Shafrazi Gallery. She also participates in numerous group exhibitions alongside the leading artists of that flamboyant decade.
The catalogue highlights the closeness of the research carried out by the sculptor Giacometti and the Japanese photographer Sugimoto through a reconstruction of a Noh theatre scene, between apparitions and reality.
Created in 1936, following the bequest of Count Moïse de Camondo to the French State in memory of his son Nissim, who died for France in 1917, the Musée Nissim de Camondo houses a rich collection of 18th-century art objects.
For several years now, the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire has been organising ‘The art of Flower Arranging’, an event dedicated to floral decoration.
Valérie Belin (born in 1964) is considered as one of the greatest artists of her generation and one of the few representatives of plastic photography.
A selection of works from the collections of the British Council and the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon on the theme of friendship. The fully illustrated catalogue includes texts about the artists, as well as an essay by Camille Toffoli, author of Engaging oneself in friendship (2023).
The Musée d'Orsay is celebrating 150 years of Impressionism. The first Impressionist exhibition opened on 15 April 1874, with works by Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, Pissarro, Sisley and Cézanne, all of whom decided to break with the rules by organising their own exhibitions outside the official channels. The success was unprecedented: Impressionism was...
Born in 1959, Djamel Tatah was head of studio at the Beaux-Arts de Paris from 2008 to 2023. His paintings feature human figures at life sizes, on coloured spaces, hieratic, suspended in time and immersed in silence.
This monograph sets out to describe the remarkable trajectory of the work of Jean Degottex (1918-1988).
An extraordinary gathering of rare drawings, prints and sculptures focusing on themes of motherhood, grief and resistance.
At the end of the 1960s, Bernar Venet was one of the few French artists French artists to settle in the United States. The 40 years he spent in New York were decisive in his career, in particular working with the major major figures in minimalist and conceptual art in the United States and Donald Judd, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Smithson and Frank...
The exhibition showcases a remarkable collection of ancient tales and illustrated fablesmbark on a captivating journey through the world of animal fables.
The impressionist masters were known for their close relationships; peers, family, art dealers, and patrons all featured regularly in their artworks, and children were favored subjects. Book preview
Paul Durand-Ruel redefined the role of the art dealer. An exceptional entrepreneur and precursor of the international art market scene, he established a network of galleries between Paris, London, Brussels, and New York, and organized international traveling exhibitions.
The Collection de l’Art Brut presents a retrospective of the works of Magalí Herrera (1914–1992). The exhibition features every piece by the Uruguayan artist held in its collection, spanning the full length of her career.
Chu Teh-Chun (1920-2014) is a major figure in the history of gestural abstract painting. This monograph sets out to define some of the aesthetic themes shaping his work and to help dispel some of the misunderstandings that have surrounded its reception.
The painter Djamel Tatah presents a captivating reinterpretation of the Musée Matisse in Nice. He has made a subjective selection from the museum's collections, highlighting around a hundred graphic works and sculptures by Henri Matisse (1869-1954), spanning the artist's entire career. Exhibition details Book preview
An overview of the work of the Hungarian-born French artist Vera Molnár, from her earliest works in the late 1940s to her most recent creations, including the stained glass windows at Lérins Abbey.
Internationally renowned, highly educated and very well connected, Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807) led a brilliant career as a pioneering history painter, an innovative portraitist and one of only two women among the founding membership of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768.
The mysterious imagery of Léon Spilliaert (Ostend 1881-Brussels 1946) exerts a particular fascination. His works on paper evoke the solitude of human beings and the immensity of the sea, the life of places familiar to the artist in and around his home town of Ostend, together with domestic interiors and objects.
A favorite purveyor to the Los Angeles design cognoscenti, Galerie Half offers a stylish blend of twentieth-century works, European antiques, and eclectic rarities imbued with a sense of timeless imperfection. Book preview
The exhibition catalogue proposes a unique meeting between two contemporary Korean artists: Ji-Young Demol Park and Lee Lee Nam. Alongside a selection of ancient works from the Musée Guimet and the Baur Foundation, their landscapes are an expression of the links established over the centuries between cultures and objects, materials, colours and motifs.
A leading figure in twentieth-century Egyptian art, Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar (1925-1966) enrolled at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1944 and later joined the Contemporary Art Group founded by his teacher, Hussein Youssef Amin.
Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) was a French avant-garde painter. He trained at the Royal Academy in London.
The exhibition catalogue celebrates the extraordinary innovation, skill and craftsmanship of Renaissance art and explores its enduring appeal to collectors through the ages.
An exceptional exhibition in the form of a tribute to the father of modern sculpture: Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957). Exhibition details
On the occasion of the « Paris 1874 » exhibition, this book takes stock of the circumstances that led to the birth of Impressionism and takes stock, through thematic entries, of the history of this founding movement of artistic modernity.
Thinking, dreaming, foreseeing or fearing the future has shaped our presence in the world since its very beginnings. In our current context, one of profound metamorphosis and uncertainty, Coming Soon revisits this relationship we have with the unknown. Exhibition details
She's the woman perilously clinging to the Eiffel Tower, the mermaid in the Rochas dress, and the graceful model in Elsa Schiaparelli's « Lobster » dress : Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (1911-1992), a name inseparable from fashion photography. Exhibition details
Charting the evolution of French jewelry created between the Consulate period (established by general Napoleon Bonaparte on the cusp of the nineteenth century) and the 1950s, this practical guide defines each era by identifying its hallmark trends, materials, gemstones, main types of jewelry, and historic jewelry houses.
The catalogue brings together the works of Lebanese visual artist and video artist Ali Cherri and those of Alberto Giacometti, one of the great masters of modern art.
A construction site offered the scenario for a big artistic project created by Carlo Valsecchi, the fruit of which is presented in the pages of this volume.
Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962) was an emblematic figure of Orientalism. Son of the famous cabinetmaker Louis Majorelle, he trained at the École nationale des beaux-arts appliqués in Nancy and then at the Académie Julian in Paris.
A monograph dedicated to Mohamed Bourouissa, highlighting for the first time the importance of the artist's drawings in his practice. Born in 1978 in Blida (Algeria), Mohamed Bourouissa lives and works in Paris.
A new monograph devoted to Edith Dekyndt, corresponding to a new cycle, the most recent, in her work.
This book is a multi-vocal, inter-disciplinary, examination of Baga culture and specifically the performance of the Serpent masquerade within that culture.
Although the new edition of Tout le quai Branly has been enriched and updated, it will retain its original purpose: to tell the story of the civilisations and cultures of Oceania, Asia, Africa and the Americas, and to provide an insight into the lives of peoples who have sometimes disappeared. A must-have for preparing or extending your visit !
Lavishly illustrated in full color, the volume features 119 African artists drawn from 10 countries including influential figures like Ben Enwonwu, Uche Okeke, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Ablade Glover, El Anatsui, and Ludovic Fadairo
This volume, dedicated to expressions of outsider art made in Canada, has the primary aim of reaching and raising awareness of this theme among the widest possible readership.