An overview of the work of the Hungarian-born French artist Vera Molnár, from her earliest works in the late 1940s to her most recent creations, including the stained glass windows at Lérins Abbey.
Internationally renowned, highly educated and very well connected, Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807) led a brilliant career as a pioneering history painter, an innovative portraitist and one of only two women among the founding membership of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768.
The mysterious imagery of Léon Spilliaert (Ostend 1881-Brussels 1946) exerts a particular fascination. His works on paper evoke the solitude of human beings and the immensity of the sea, the life of places familiar to the artist in and around his home town of Ostend, together with domestic interiors and objects.
A favorite purveyor to the Los Angeles design cognoscenti, Galerie Half offers a stylish blend of twentieth-century works, European antiques, and eclectic rarities imbued with a sense of timeless imperfection. Book preview
The exhibition catalogue proposes a unique meeting between two contemporary Korean artists: Ji-Young Demol Park and Lee Lee Nam. Alongside a selection of ancient works from the Musée Guimet and the Baur Foundation, their landscapes are an expression of the links established over the centuries between cultures and objects, materials, colours and motifs.
A leading figure in twentieth-century Egyptian art, Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar (1925-1966) enrolled at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1944 and later joined the Contemporary Art Group founded by his teacher, Hussein Youssef Amin.
Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) was a French avant-garde painter. He trained at the Royal Academy in London.
The exhibition catalogue celebrates the extraordinary innovation, skill and craftsmanship of Renaissance art and explores its enduring appeal to collectors through the ages.
An exceptional exhibition in the form of a tribute to the father of modern sculpture: Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957). Exhibition details
On the occasion of the « Paris 1874 » exhibition, this book takes stock of the circumstances that led to the birth of Impressionism and takes stock, through thematic entries, of the history of this founding movement of artistic modernity.
Thinking, dreaming, foreseeing or fearing the future has shaped our presence in the world since its very beginnings. In our current context, one of profound metamorphosis and uncertainty, Coming Soon revisits this relationship we have with the unknown. Exhibition details
She's the woman perilously clinging to the Eiffel Tower, the mermaid in the Rochas dress, and the graceful model in Elsa Schiaparelli's « Lobster » dress : Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (1911-1992), a name inseparable from fashion photography. Exhibition details
Charting the evolution of French jewelry created between the Consulate period (established by general Napoleon Bonaparte on the cusp of the nineteenth century) and the 1950s, this practical guide defines each era by identifying its hallmark trends, materials, gemstones, main types of jewelry, and historic jewelry houses.
The catalogue brings together the works of Lebanese visual artist and video artist Ali Cherri and those of Alberto Giacometti, one of the great masters of modern art.
A construction site offered the scenario for a big artistic project created by Carlo Valsecchi, the fruit of which is presented in the pages of this volume.
Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962) was an emblematic figure of Orientalism. Son of the famous cabinetmaker Louis Majorelle, he trained at the École nationale des beaux-arts appliqués in Nancy and then at the Académie Julian in Paris.
A monograph dedicated to Mohamed Bourouissa, highlighting for the first time the importance of the artist's drawings in his practice. Born in 1978 in Blida (Algeria), Mohamed Bourouissa lives and works in Paris.
A new monograph devoted to Edith Dekyndt, corresponding to a new cycle, the most recent, in her work.
This book is a multi-vocal, inter-disciplinary, examination of Baga culture and specifically the performance of the Serpent masquerade within that culture.
Although the new edition of Tout le quai Branly has been enriched and updated, it will retain its original purpose: to tell the story of the civilisations and cultures of Oceania, Asia, Africa and the Americas, and to provide an insight into the lives of peoples who have sometimes disappeared. A must-have for preparing or extending your visit !
Lavishly illustrated in full color, the volume features 119 African artists drawn from 10 countries including influential figures like Ben Enwonwu, Uche Okeke, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Ablade Glover, El Anatsui, and Ludovic Fadairo
This volume, dedicated to expressions of outsider art made in Canada, has the primary aim of reaching and raising awareness of this theme among the widest possible readership.
In this exhibition, the Museum Plantin-Moretus shows the 80 most beautiful old master drawings from Flemish collections.
Sean Landers is a conceptual artist and a leading exponent of contemporary American art. Somewhere between biography and fiction, he stages his life as an artist in a mode of self-exposure: artifice, trickery, pretense... Exhibition details
Yves Clerc began his career in drawing and photography, before turning to painting and abstraction, followed by figuration. He offers us a poetic vision of the world, where shimmering colors rub shoulders with flat blacks.
Born in China in 1968 and living in France since 2001, Li Fang capture in her paintings the oscillations of the contemporary world. This first monograph invites the reader to explore all aspects of her work.
This book is the first monograph by prodigy Khalif Tahir Thompson, whose work is already housed in several prestigious institutions. Inspired by family snapshots taken by his grandmother, Betty L. Thompson, the artist creates multicolored patchworks that unfold around Black figures captured amid colorful everyday interiors.
Exploring the links between art, architecture, and material, the architect Bijoy Jain, founder of Studio Mumbai in India, offers at the Fondation Cartier a space of reverie and contemplation in dialogue with Jean Nouvel’s iconic building. Exhibition details
The chronology of Capa’s oeuvre, a real monument in the history of photography, marks the pages of this book extremely rich in images, giving on the one hand the idea of its vastness and on the other outlining how the photographer works in the field.
The theme of the sixth Biennial de l'Art Brut (2023-2024) is the face, that singular part of the human being which, through its workmanship and expressions, condenses the whole person, his body and his psyche.
A protean artist, Matthieu Laurette uses the mass media and the entertainment industry as a place and tool of production, thereby shifting the very idea of the studio: reality is his studio. The catalogue presents 30 years of artistic production and includes a range of new works and interventions.
The Studio de la MEP, a space dedicated to emerging creation, presents Femme Actuelle, the first solo exhibition by artist My-Lan Hoang-Thuy.
This catalogue accompanies "The World of Tim Burton", a major immersive exhibition set up at the The National Museum of Cinema in Turin, an exclusive journey into the mind of a creative genius.
This opus, arranged as an alphabetical guide, is a veritable A-Z lexicon that revisits the themes and codes of the famous jeweler: indispensable historical references to emblematic jewels, precision watchmaking and jewelry-making techniques demonstrating unique savoir faire, and artistic collaborations.
Whether at peace or at war, Paris during the first half of the twentieth century pulsated with frenzied energy. Creatives from across Europe flocked to the French capital where they had free rein to experiment with innovative forms of expression. Book preview
The Institut Giacometti presents a new exhibition and brings together all versions of The Nose, a sculpture that was revisited by the artist over several years.
When the famous Dutch art historian and connoisseur Frits Lugt (1884-1970) and his wife Jacoba Klever (1888-1969) decided to present their collections in the Hôtel Turgot in Paris, Chinese porcelain ranked among their priorities. They intended to give the French public an impression of Dutch Golden Age interiors and a porcelain cabinet had traditionally...
Statues, masterpieces from the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac presents a selection of nearly one hundred statues from the collections of the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, reproduced full-page and accompanied by short notes in a simple, accessible style.
Designed like an artist's book with its intimate format and its alternations of Bible and creative papers, Picalso immerses the reader in the funny, poetic and singular universe of the artist.
Born in 1941 in the UK, Victor Burgin is an artist and theorist. This exhibition catalogue covers over fifty years of artistic activity and includes early conceptual works, still photo-text works from the 1970s and 1980s, and video works dating from 2006 to 2023.
This volume is the first monograph dedicated to the work of photographer Joël Denot.
A double volume dedicated to Yves Dana, the Swiss sculptor of Egyptian origin.
Through Le Voyage Recommencé, its latest collection of high jewelry and precious objects, Cartier pays tribute to the richness of its style.
Originally from Pakistan, Huma Bhabha (b. 1932) grew up in a house full of art books. She is known for her distinctive visual language, which focuses on the human figure in all its expressive potential.
Renowned in Europe as an avant-garde architect in the 1970s, the Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill was called to the French stage following the destruction of Les Halles de Baltard in 1971. Called upon to compete in 1974, the architect attempted to revive the historic forms of Parisian architecture and urban planning.