Settled in an industrial building of the Rue de Babylone, this fervent enthusiast of eco-design, who is both designer and interior architect, creates a line of furniture and lamps pretty typical, recognizable at first glance and that always denotes his taste for wood and natural materials.
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).
Denise René has been for more than 60 years a great lady in contemporary art. The history of geometrical abstraction and cinétisme would not exist without her. Franck Marlot is now at the head of the gallery but Denise René still comes there almost every day.
