Philippe Bismuth worked as a 20th century painting and sculpture expert for ten years before teaming with Vincent Amiaux, a specialist of Cubism to open the gallery in 1998. Works by Giacometti, Foujita, Dubuffet, Lhote, Picabia, Utrillo, Picasso, Warhol and 20th century masters are regularly on show.
Since 1958, the gallery has offered a vast selection of graphic and photographic editions of the greatest figures of the Surrealist movement, namely Hans Bellmer, Giorgio De Chirico, Salvador Dali, Leonor Fini or Wassily Kandinsky. It also exhibits Pre-Columbian art focusing on the cultures from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
The gallery is dedicated to the major painters of the “Nouvelle Ecole de Paris” (a term coined in the 50’s) including : Karel Appel, Jean-Michel Atlan, Jean René Bazaine, Roger Bissière, Camille Bryen, Serge Charchoune, Chu Teh-Chun, Corneille, Olivier Debré, Jean Dubuffet, Maurice Estève, Jean Fautrier, Otto Freundlich, Hans Hartung, Jean Hélion, Auguste Herbin, Asger Jorn, Wifredo Lam, André Lanskoy, Alberto Magnelli, Alfred Manessier, André Masson, Georges Mathieu, Serge Poliakoff, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Gérard Schneider, Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Staël, Victor Vasarely, Bram van Velde, Geer van Velde, Maria Elena Vieira da Silva or Zao Wou-ki.
Design, architecture, photography, fine arts, fashion…situated inside the Hermès boutique rue de Sèvres, the Chaîne d’encre bookshop is a quiet corner where epicureans will find an extremely well crafted book selection.
Jean-Bernard Gillot is first and foremost a librarian, but he also infuses his bookshop with his passion for photography and travels. He also regularly organises exhibitions on modern and contemporary photographers.
Every day from 10 am to midnight and on Sundays from 11.00 a.m to 10.00 p.m, it is nice to stroll around in this multidisciplinary bookshop where there is a kid department.
After a career as a lawyer specialising in intellectual property, when he dealt with numerous cases involving major artists, Bruno Sabatier, a former Art publisher and now a gallery owner, focuses almost exclusively on the work of Francis Bacon, whom he met for the first time in 1976. JSC Modern Art Gallery is the exclusive provider of the “catalogue raisonné” of the complete graphic work of Francis Bacon.
Nobuyoshi Araki, Martin Parr, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Dado Moriyama, Mohammed Bourouissa, Anish Kapoor, appear amongst the artists represented by Kamel Mennour. This self-taught man managed to do in ten years what others spent a life-time to achieve : to present world-famous artists in an international gallery and try to make contemporary art accessible to the largest number, in particular by publishing numerous monographs.
Situated in the Hotel de Biron, the Musée Rodin is also an open-air museum where the public can turn round the sculptures, admire them and touch them. For lovers, the paths of the garden are an ideal place for a walk.
Specialising in 20th century movements like Dada, Surrealism and the ‘Nouveaux Réalistes’, Natalie Seroussi likes to initiate confrontations between modern and contemporary art.
She presents : Arman, Jean Arp, Evelyne Axell, John Baldessari, Giacomo Balla, Hans Bellmer, Henryk Berlewi, Jean Charles Blais, Alighiero e Boetti, Erik Boulatov, Victor Brauner, Mathieu Briand, Alexander Calder, Christo, Jean Crotti, Felix del Marle, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Malachi Farrell, Luis Fernandez, Julio Gonzales, Raymond Hains, Bernard Heidsieck, Jean Helion, Alain Jacquet, Konrad Klapheck, Yves Klein, Fernand Léger, André Masson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Francis Picabia, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Martial Raysse, Niki de Saint Phalle, Kurt Schwitters, Jesus-Rafael Soto, Vassilakis Takis, Jean Tinguely, Victor Vasarely, Tom Wesselmann, Caliopé Wols.
Created by Véronique Cochois and Véronique Marchal in 2011, the galerie Insula offers an eclectic curation of upcoming talents and more senior artists who work with all types of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, engraving and drawing. The Gallery represents : Madhu BASU, Béatrice BIZOT, Fernando COSTA, Stéphane DAUTHUILLE, Astrid DE LA FOREST, Pascal DI PERI, Patricia ERBELDING, Jérôme FESTY, Pierre-François GRIMALDI, Etienne GROS, Héloïse GUYARD, Mathilde JONQUIERE, Thomas JORION, Juliette LANOS, Mathide LE CABELLEC, Adrian MOMPARLER, Cristina MOROÑO, NICO, Jean-Philippe PERNOT, Bénédicte PLUMEY, Francesc ROCA, SADKO, Sophie SAINRAPT et Eloïse VAN DER HEYDEN.
On entering a private art gallery today one generally appreciates, apart from the quality of the works exhibited, the sobriety of the architecture and the neutrality of the space. Thus it is rare for the space itself to make as strong an impression as the works on display. This is the slightly unsettling observation one makes when crossing the threshold of Da-End. The private art gallery opened its doors this summer in Saint-Germain des Prés. (…) composed of three rooms, corridors, alcoves, a few lecterns and easels in which the light and shadows play on the rich colours of the walls. The space is a hidden gem, « halfway between a cabinet of curiosities and a secret abode » explain the gallery owners, the photographer Satoshi Saikusa and his companion Diem Quynh. This is an antechamber of an opium den or a boudoir, both of delights and pain. It is as if the spirit of the Symbolists and the Decadentistes, with Huysman at their head, had finally found a place to rest in Paris. A dwelling « à rebours », where the spirits of Verlaine, Baudelaire, Nerval, Poe and Mallarmé mingle with the contemporary works. Da-End signifies oval in Japanese, a term which evokes the intrauterine world, fantasies and nightmares, ecstasy and suffering. Artificialia, Curiosa, Naturalia, Erotica: it is beyond the boundaries of art and the starting point of a new quest: that of the search for the rare, the bizarre and the precious. Da-End is a marvellous anachronistic place: both dark and brooding where poisonous flowers grow in a greenhouse from which heady fragrances escape.
