Esther de Beaucé presents exclusive jewel-sculptures by contemporary artists such as Frank Stella, Bernar Venet, François Morellet, Orlan, Jacques Villeglé, Miguel Chevalier, Barthélémy Toguo, Lee Ufan, Pierrette Bloch, Laurent Baud as well as by designers, architects and none other than the greatest modern artists like Picasso and Calder.
Alexandre Biaggi aime créer des univers, des décors. Dans sa galerie, autour des figures emblématiques des arts décoratifs du 20ème siècle, Jean-Michel Frank, André Arbus, Jacques Adnet, Serge Roche, Jean Royère, Jacques Quinet, Ettore Sottsass ou Gio Ponti … il présente le travail de créateurs actuels, Patrick Naggar, Mauro Fabbro, Patrice Dangel, Simone Crestani, dont il édite de nombreuses pièces. En les exposant ensemble, parfois accompagnés d’art contemporain ou d’arts premiers, il crée des points de rencontre inattendus et passionnants.
Jean Royère’s works of art made Jacques Lacoste want to open a gallery specialized in design of the 1940s – 1950s and for ten years he has been the one that people consult for an advice or a valuation on the works of art of this great designer. He is also the one who shows this work whenever he gets the opportunity on the other side of the Atlantic. But is does not prevent him from showing the works of Serge Mouille, Alexandre Noll, Georges Jouve or Pierre Szekely.
Marcel Fleiss opened the Galerie des Quatre Mouvements in 1972 with an exhibition of forty rayographs by his friend Man Ray. He presented Dada, Surrealist, Pop, and Hyperrealist works there. In 1981, he opened the Galerie 1900-2000, where he broadened his artistic scope to include other avant-garde movements (Lettrism, Fluxus, etc.) and a few contemporary artists (Pol Bury, George Condo, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Keith Haring’s last exhibition before his death). In 1991, his son David joined him and developed the photography department and collaborations with contemporary artists (Joseph Kosuth and Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sylvie Fleury, and Laurent Grasso). Together, they now focus primarily on Surrealist and Dadaist works (Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Hans Bellmer, Arthur Cravan, etc.) while continuing to champion the art of the 1960s and 70s.
Artists permanently presented : Hans Bellmer, Gaston Bertin, Jean-Louis Brau, Victor Brauner, Pol Bury, William Copley Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Aube Elléouët, Max Ernst, Xavier Escriba, Al Hansen, Jacques Hérold, Ray Johnson, Philippe Jusforgues, Tetsumi Kudo, Wifredo Lam, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Maurice Lemaitre,
Frédéric Léglise, Dora Maar, Man Ray, André Masson, Pierre Molinier, Francis Picabia, Edda Renouf, Miguel Rio Branco, Ed Ruscha, Robert Whitman
The ambition of the Galerie Parisienne is to show the chic parisien. A very beautiful selection of luxurious jewelry, of artists’ jewels, of furniture and objets d’art is presented permanently and, regularly, exhibitions are organized about the work of a specific artist.
There is a private club feel to the decoration by Christian Liaigre which is sober, elegant and as great as everything the designer creates. The menu, the numerous beautiful people and model-looking waiters all conspire to make this place ultrachic !
The most illustrious café in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. It was the favourite spot of the intelligentsia of the 30’s, from Surrealists to editors, artists and filmmakers and it became the meeting point of post-war Existentialists. There gathered Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Boris Vian, writers and artists such as Ernest Hemingway, Juliette Gréco Brigitte Bardot, Roman Polanski, Françoise Sagan, Romain Gary as well as the world of fashion. Nowadays the Café de Flore still caters for a subtle blend or artists, writers, intellectuals, politics and anonymous people.
Created in 1926 by Christian Zervos, the Cahiers d’Art review belongs to the legend of SaintGermain-des-Prés. Picasso, Giacometti, Matisse, Léger, Beckett and Miro took part in it before it became slightly neglected. ‘Les Cahiers’ were purchased by the Swede Staffan Ahrenberg and are now headed by Samuel Keller and Hans-Ulrich Obrist and back to their former place and lustre.
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.
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.
The Galerie Cipango has been known since 1978 for its unique pieces. It regularly invites a seasoned artist -painter, sculptor, architect or photographer- to create one or several jewels that echo their own work. Each of these encounters is immortalised by signed and numbered limited editions.
