Exhibitions

For this 57th year of the Cologne Fair, we are pleased to present the work of an artist from Bremen whom we have championed for many years, Nicholas Bodde. He was invited by the Arithmeum Museum in Bonn, to explode color in this place, the event began on September 8 under the title: “De la couleur à l’infini” met with a strong response in the press and a large number of visitors. Another artist whose beautiful work we will present entitled “La danse du feu” 1973, who also focused on color and especially in an architectural way (Jet-Underground fresco in the Hauptbahnof metro station in Hannover): Jean Dewasne (1921-1999), also present in the collection of the Arithmeum Museum.

The artistic influence of Paris at the turn of the 1930s, the massive installation of foreign artists and the holding of international exhibitions made the French capital the main center of expression of geometric abstraction. This great international movement was organized with the creation of groups defending non-figurative art, including Cercle et Carré (1929), founded by Michel Seuphor and Joaquin Torres Garcia, Art Concret (1930), around Theo van Doesburg (with Jean Hélion, Otto Carlsund, Léon Tutundjian and Marcel Wantz), then, above all, the Abstraction-Création association (1931-1936) chaired by Auguste Herbin and Georges Vantongerloo: Abstraction for “the progressive abstraction of the forms of nature”;Creation for a “purely geometric design or the exclusive use of elements commonly called abstract such as circles, planes, bars, lines. »

We wanted to bring together a number of our contemporary artists around the colors blue, yellow and red and observe the way their works respond to each other.

The gallery closes its doors to the public and invites you to visit the current exhibitions throughout the summer in other places to discover!

We weren’t expecting it anymore but it arrived! The exhibition in a Parisian Museum by Auguste Herbin (1882-1960) is finally here! The Musée de Montmartre is offering a retrospective, the first in Paris, of his work until September 15, 2024. In fact, to echo this retrospective, and in parallel with an exhibition that we are devoting to him at the gallery, we will offer a sample of the artist’s different periods on the booth.

We are very pleased to announce the Nicholas Bodde exhibition at the Arithmeum Museum in Bonn.

In 1913, the date of the cubist painting "Le chêne liège" presented in this exhibition, Herbin’s path through the history of the European avant-garde is already significant. Taking as his starting point, at the very beginning of the twentieth century, Van Gogh and Cézanne who would be his only masters, on the eve of the First World War, Herbin already had an international career supported by his first dealers. Fauve painter then cubist, he exhibited several times in Germany, Switzerland and Holland through Wilhelm Uhde, as well as in England, this time through Clovis Sagot.

We are very proud that this fabulous museum located south of Stuttgart in Waldenbuch, pays homage to geometric abstraction and to France.

It is with undisguised pleasure that we look forward to meeting you again at Art Paris. This fair has the merit of strongly defending the French scene, which is what gives it its color and its unique identity. This year, faithful to our line, we offer you a choice of works by Auguste Herbin (1882-1960) ranging from the period of scrolls to that of the plastic alphabet. A retrospective opens at the Montmartre Museum in Paris and will be on view until September 15. You will have the opportunity to discover the work of an artist who accompanied all the major movements in art history from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century. Watching his work unfold before our eyes, we are witnessing a real art history lesson, the common thread of which is color.

Herbin in Paris in a museum finally!

After 19 years on rue du Parc Royal, we moved to 70 rue des Tournelles Paris 3rd. For this inaugural exhibition of our new place, we wanted to pay tribute by thanking different people: Anne and Jean-Claude Lahumière for having initiated this third ’child’ that the gallery represents, of which we find ourselves in charge with undisguised pleasure, the artists who have shown us unfailing support and the collectors who have managed to bring us over the 60-year mark.

the gallery will be open from January 25

Dear friends of the gallery,

We move! A page turns, Frédéric and I continue the activity of the gallery in a new location still in the 3rd arrondissement:

70 rue des Tournelles.

We are very pleased to support Günter Fruhtrunk’s exhibition ‘The Parisian Years’ at the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich

In this new cycle of reinterpretation of its permanent collection, the eac. chose to honor two great essential artists of the French abstract scene.

Cécile Bart and Ode Bertrand are the tandem guests of this 2023 edition to dialogue not only with each other but also with a selection of works from the Donation-Albers-Honegger.