In Paris, New York and Shanghai, the Dumonteil Gallery presents a selection of design pieces, sculptures, paintings and photographs around the theme of Animals and Nature.
Great Masters like François Pompon, Georges-Lucien Guyot, Bugatti, Diego Giacometti, Charles Artus, Marcel Derny, Pablo Picasso, Armand Petersen and Joseph Czaky, and contemporary artists, Jean-Marie Fiori, Helmut Koller, Eric Pillot, Jean- Claude Meynard, Rubén Fuentes, Hubert le Gall or Wang Keping,
The Jeu de Paume is an artistic venue exclusively dedicated to contemporary photography, video art, experimental film and documentary essay.
The Jeu de Paume produces, co-produces and houses exhibitions, film festivals, conferences, educational activities and publications. It also supports internet creation hosting web-based projects on its website.
The history of the place is quite eventful: it was created in 1862 during the 2nd Empire as the first Parisian venue dedicated to the practice of the racket game regarded as the precursor of tennis. So as to keep a sense of aesthetic continuity, it was modelled after the neighbouring building, l’Orangerie. The early 20th century saw the rise of tennis and the venue was transformed into an exhibition gallery. From 1922 to 1929, it served as an annex of the Musée du Luxembourg. During World War II, the Jeu de paume was used as storage and sorting house for stolen artworks and it housed impressionist artworks between 1947 and 1986 before the Musée d’Orsay opened along with the Louvre. Finally in 2004, it became dedicated to supporting photographic creation and image.
Académies, a school, a style, known and imitated in the whole world ; The Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts is the heiress to a long history, started with the foundation of the Royal Académies of painting and sculpture in 1648 by Louis XIV, then of architecture in 1671. This institution is one of the latest to house under the same roof a modern education intended for the formation of future artists and collections made of 450 000 works of art, accumulated during its three hundred and fifty years of existence, which are also presented in exhibitions inside the school.
The aim of this institution is to show the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson but it is also open to other artists, sculptors, painters, drawers or film-makers, modern and contemporary artists whose work are linked with the spirit of what Cartier-Bresson wanted to create and promote.
