Our webstore uses cookies to offer a better user experience and we consider that you are accepting their use if you keep browsing the website.
The catalogue explores a major phenomenon of the second half of the 19th century and the first third of the 20th: Whistlerism. Exhibition details
The Rencontres d'Arles (formerly known as the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d'Arles) is a summer photography festival founded in 1970 by Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, author Michel Tournier and historian Jean-Maurice Rouquette.
The International City of Tapestry in Aubusson is celebrating the completion of the "Aubusson weaves Tolkien" hanging, begun in 2017 in partnership with the Tolkien Estate.
The book retraces the life and work of the poet and painter Max Jacob (1876-1944) and explores his links to cubism. Exhibition details
Devoted to an examination of the extensive recognition Halley has received in Europe, this book traces the history of his forty years of activity in Western Europe.
In 1935, twelve Parisian glass artists proposed replacing Viollet-le-Duc's grisaille stained glass windows installed in the upper nave of Notre-Dame de Paris with their own creations. Encouraged by advocates of the modern revival of sacred art, the modernity, the project nonetheless met with a great deal of resistance in the name of the preservation of...
Palazzo Vecchio, which towers over piazza della Signoria, at the center of Florence, is an iconic building and from the Middle Ages to the Medici family to present day it has been the seat of civic power. Among its most admired features are the marvelous grotesque decorations which animate the walls and vaults of the courtyard and several rooms.
For the past forty years, Coskun (1950) has been carving massive materials in works that condense in the representation of the body the accomplished and experimental significance of the human figure.
Japanese designer Yuima Nakazato, born in 1985, is one of those daring enough to renew the role of clothing. His ambition is to link haute-couture design with the circular economy, a little-understood notion that evokes simple creative gestures, far removed from the tradition of Parisian couture.
Strong, lustful, fatal, loving, demonic, tempting or mythical, women have been represented in many ways over the centuries, often in response to a patriarchal vision of the world. Exploring identity, sexuality, pleasure and power, The lnfinite Woman sheds light on the ways in which women have been viewed from the earliest myths to the most contemporary...
The book presents a dozen themes related to sport and fashion in Paris, evoked through archival documents, photographs and pictorial works, and compared with a selection of flagship pieces from the collections of the Palais Galliera.
Featuring a collection of major works, this catalogue and the exhibition it accompanies is an invitation to a journey through Joseph Mallord William Turner's representations of the sublime in the world, from his landscapes to the elementary explorations of light and atmosphere of which he was a precursor and master.
The first major monograph devoted to the French painter Julien des Monstiers, published to coincide with the presentation of his work in two major exhibitions, one at the Château de Chambort and the other at the Suquet des Artistes in Cannes.
This luxurious exhibition catalog offers glimpses into the mystery of Friedrich’s largely posthumous popularity as well as the latest research into his training and techniques.
This book presents a selection of more than 800 photographs from The Walther Collection. Over a period of twenty years, Artur Walther (born in Ulm, Germany), has assembled one of the most important collections of photography in the world, remarkable for its international scope, its quality, and its focus on large series by individual artists.
Most of the books and solo exhibitions devoted to the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson strive to demonstrate the stylistic unity of his œuvre. Against that unifying and reductive approach, the present project has the ambition to highlight the diversity of his photographic practice in the various periods of his life. See exhibition details
Begun in 1975 and now boasting some 1500 images ranging from the 19th century to the 1960s, the Gilman collection is one of the most remarkable in the world. Exhibition details
The post-war period was a happy and prosperous one for Collioure, attracting artists eager to reconnect with the pleasure of creation and a certain carefree spirit. For just over 20 years, Collioure, like other villages along the Mediterranean coast, built its legend. Book preview
This book presents two sets of paintings by François Avril: seascapes and urban landscapes. Numerous sketches illustrate the artist's creative process.
The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation's Environmental Photography Award was launched in 2021. The book (bilingual French-English version), includes all the shortlisted photographs, accompanied by explanatory texts or photographers’ testimonials.
Noi siamo gli unici e indiscussi destinatari delle immagini, la loro obbedienza ai nostri bisogni non ha mai smesso di lusingarci nel raccontare ciò che mostrano. Nel far affiorare allo sguardo ricordi, sensazioni, esperienze, giudizi che la memoria conserva in forma di parola.
This first monograph of Claire Tabouret, bilingual (English / French), presents a wide selection of her works (many paintings and drawings presented on different papers, and some sculptures) as well as a dozen exhibition views.
“To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one’s self, to astound catastrophe by the small amount of fear it instils in us, to hold fast, to withstand”, wrote Victor Hugo, that is the history of Paris ! Book preview
Teresa Lanceta, born in Barcelona in 1951, is one of Spain's leading contemporary artists, having been awarded the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas in September 2023. Her versatile work explores weaving, painting, drawing, video and writing.
A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Roberto Cabot uses painting to explore the concept of the Sublime and our relationship with a rapidly changing biosphere, as well as the various ways of moving beyond the 'naturalist' model that dominates our globalised society.
Heir to the great Flemish masters, American painter Jeff Kowatch borrows from them the virtuoso technique of glazing.
This book draws a bridge between the memory of Victor Vasarely and his imprint on contemporary creation. 36 artists pay tribute to his legacy.Book preview
The art of the icon, a visual idiom born in the Eastern Church, has deeply influenced the visual creations of Western Christianity from the Middle Ages onward, despite the adoption of a different aesthetic that was created in opposition to this maniera greca during the Renaissance.
A true journey through the modern and contemporary history of comics, the exhibition "Comics (1964-2024)" brings into dialogue its three main centers of expression: European creation, Asian mangas and American comics. Exhibition details
Catalogue of the French Pavilion exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2024, with artist and studio director Julien Creuzet.
Art today can only take sport into account, as it is the backdrop of our contemporary societies. ‘Endeavours and masterpieces’ examines the relationship between art and sport through over 350 works by French and foreign artists, with fascination, criticism and humour.
Through more than two hundred vintage photographic prints, this volume presents an in-depth and original window into Brassaï’s oeuvre.
The Frits Lugt Collection, which is housed in the Institut Néerlandais in Paris, comprises the almost complete graphic oeuvre of Rembrandt.
Die französischen öffentlichen Sammlungen bewahren heute mehr als fünfhundert, im Heiligen Römischen Reich vom Spätmittelalter bis zur Renaissance geschaffene Malereien.
Recognized today as one of France's leading artists, Bernar Venet's work is exhibited all over the world. While his monumental steel sculptures are widely distributed, his early works, from the late 1960s, are much less well known to the general public.
Lee Miller in Print is the culmination of years of research into Miller’s published body of work. This research has uncovered numerous previously unknown examples of Miller’s work in the archives of dozens of magazines – from well-known titles such as Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue to small-circulation avant-garde periodicals.
Presenting exclusively works from the Pinault Collection, the exhibition and its catalogue bring together a vast selection of pieces produced mainly between the 1980s and the present day, half of which are being exhibited for the first time by the Pinault Collection. The exhibition highlights François Pinault's passion for contemporary art that is...
In the 1980s, Samantha McEwen was one of the few women to exhibit twice in the famous Tony Shafrazi Gallery. She also participates in numerous group exhibitions alongside the leading artists of that flamboyant decade.
The catalogue highlights the closeness of the research carried out by the sculptor Giacometti and the Japanese photographer Sugimoto through a reconstruction of a Noh theatre scene, between apparitions and reality.
Created in 1936, following the bequest of Count Moïse de Camondo to the French State in memory of his son Nissim, who died for France in 1917, the Musée Nissim de Camondo houses a rich collection of 18th-century art objects.
For several years now, the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire has been organising ‘The art of Flower Arranging’, an event dedicated to floral decoration.
Valérie Belin (born in 1964) is considered as one of the greatest artists of her generation and one of the few representatives of plastic photography.
A selection of works from the collections of the British Council and the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon on the theme of friendship. The fully illustrated catalogue includes texts about the artists, as well as an essay by Camille Toffoli, author of Engaging oneself in friendship (2023).
The Musée d'Orsay is celebrating 150 years of Impressionism. The first Impressionist exhibition opened on 15 April 1874, with works by Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, Pissarro, Sisley and Cézanne, all of whom decided to break with the rules by organising their own exhibitions outside the official channels. The success was unprecedented: Impressionism was...
Born in 1959, Djamel Tatah was head of studio at the Beaux-Arts de Paris from 2008 to 2023. His paintings feature human figures at life sizes, on coloured spaces, hieratic, suspended in time and immersed in silence.