The Galerie Le Minotaure, created in 2002, is situated Rue des Beaux-Arts, at the former address of the famous bookshop from whom it preserved its name. His founder, Benoit Sapiro, is fascinated by Russian and Central Europe artists of the first half of the 20th century. Benoit Sapiro dedicated himself to helping rediscover the first half of the 20th Century Russian and Central Europe artists for more than twenty years, with a constant and passionated action.
Founded in 1954 by Jean Fournier (1922-2006), this art gallery still stands up for the choices made by Jean Fournier concerning abstraction but associating it to younger artists : James Bishop, Pierre Buraglio, Didier Demozay, Sam Francis, Simon Hantaï, Pierre Mabille, Jean-François Maurige, Michel Parmentier, Jean-Paul Riopelle, François Rouan, Peter Soriano, Claude Tétot or Claude Viallat mix with younger artists such as Frédérique Lucien, Nathalie Elemento, Stéphane Bordarier, Elizabeth Cooper, Nicolas Guiet and Emmanuel Van der Meulen.
Aimé Maeght (1906-1981) was at the same time an art dealer, a publisher, a movie producer and an art collector as well. He exhibited Braque, Matisse, Léger, Mirò, Tàpies, Chillida, Chagall, Kandinsky, Kelly, Calder, Giacometti, Bram van Velde, Alechinsky Rebeyrolle, Adami, Monory or Ting. With 12 000 titles published, Maeght is now recognized as the most important editor of lithographs and engravings in the world.
The gallery is managed by Isabelle Maeght. The exhibitions enable visitors to see the works of historic artists, but also to discover more contemporary ones : Gérard Gasiorowski, Marco Del Re, Selma Gurbuz, Aki Kuroda, Manolo Valdes or Ernst Scheidegger. The gallery still publishes many books, reproductions, and engravings (prints).
This gallery presents 5 to 6 annual exhibitions which show the various periods and waves of photography: Denis Brihat, Denis Dailleux, Paul den Hollander, Bernard Descamps, Eric Dessert, Duhiro Ishimoto, Michael Kenna, Bohnchang Koo, Saul Leiter, Laurent Millet, Sarah Moon, Françoise Nuñez, Philippe Pache, Françoise Nuñez, Luis Gonzales Palma, Marc Riboud, Willy Ronis, Paolo Roversi, Pentti Sammallahti, Patrick Taberna, Christopher Taylor, Alexey Titarenko, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt.
Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois were the first ones to dedicate personal exhibitions to Alain Bublex, Gilles Barbier or Paul MacCarthy in France and they are now on display all around the world. Among those whose works are defended by the gallery, there are really well known artists but also younger artists : Boris Achour, Pilar Albarracin, Matthew Antezzo, Julien Bismuth, Richard Jackson, Adam Janes, Jeff Mills, Joachim Mogarra, Jacques Villeglé, Virginie Yassef …
Hervé Loevenbruck fell in love with Saint-Germain-des-Prés . In his gallery he displays many young hopefuls from the French and European contemporary world : Philippe Mayaux, Bruno Peinado, Fabien Giraud, Raphaël Siboni, Virginie Barré, the Irishwoman Blaise Drummond, the Norwegian Gardar Eide Einarsson, the Swiss Cristian Andersen and the Austrian Werner Reiterer, but also already well known artists as the Hungarian Gabor Ösz or Alina Szapoznikow from Poland.
Created in 1959 by Dino Di Meo, this gallery is now run by his brother Nello and by his sister Lydie. In the gallery and in the international art fairs, they show artists who contributed to write art history : Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Henri Matisse, Henri Michaux, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Josef Sima, Jean Degottex, Cy Twombly and the Italian artists of the movement Arte Povera : Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero e Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone , Michelangelo Pistoletto … But also contemporary artists, mostly Italian such as Piero Pizzi Cannella, Gianni Dessi, Giuseppe Gallo, Nunzio and Marco Tirelli.
