Galerie Champetier, Salons, estampe, lithographie, gravure, céramique

Catalogues raisonnés

3 new catalogs in our library.

3 new Catalogues raisonnsé

Erich Heckel

"Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik", 3 volumes, Renate Ebner, Andreas Gabelmann, Hirmer Verlag, Munich, 2021.

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Roland Topor

"Toporlino", Ed. Atelier Clot-Bramsen et George, Paris, 1986.

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Tom Wesselmann

"Prints & Multiples series", Wildenstein Plattner Institute, 2022.

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Events and exhibitions

Events or exhibitions we visited

Events and exhibitions

We had not modified this section since March 2022, an eternity! Over the last eight months, we have finally been able to make many trips, both in France and abroad. Of course, we had the opportunity to visit many exhibitions, most of them very interesting, and to discover or rediscover museums. Here are the main points.

PAINTERS OF THE SACRED HEART - F. BURDA M. - BADEN-BADEN

Catalogue de l'exposition Les Peintres du Sacré-Coeur

From 16 July to 20 November 2022: The Painters of the Sacred Heart. In real life, they were customs officers, gardeners or fairground wrestlers - as self-taught artists - and thus created a pictorial universe which today is still captivating because of its sensual immediacy and which has permanently anchored the work of non-academically trained artists in the history of art: Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), Camille Bombois (1883-1970), André Bauchant (1873-1958), Louis Vivin (1861-1939) and especially Séraphine Louis (1864-1942). They are considered to be part of the circle of "Painters of the Sacred Heart". Their scenarios, which were often borrowed from nature, especially flowers and fruit, but also animals and landscapes, announce a direct link with nature, a sensitive approach to things in the direct environment, through which they clearly tried to escape the coldness of a then emerging modernity.

Although they had no artistic training, these five painters made a lasting impression on the Parisian art scene of the early 20th century. Decisive for their discovery was their contact with the German art dealer Wilhelm Uhde and his joint exhibition Les Peintres du Sacré-Cœur in 1928, which brought together the stylistically diverse works of art of these artists. In their individual techniques and motifs, often borrowed from their immediate environment, he saw a unique emotionality, a radiant freshness and accessibility, which he lacked in the theory-laden discourse of academically trained modernist artists. Since forgotten, this exhibition at the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden is a joyful rediscovery of a chapter of art history that has only recently been given a new lease of life.

A very interesting exhibition!

and also :

O. W. ROEDERSTEIN - STADEL MUSEUM - FRANCFORT

Affiche de l'exposition O. W. Roederstein de Francfort.

From 20 July to 16 October 2021 - "Frei. Schaffend. Die Malerin Ottilie W. Roederstein".

Ottilie Roederstein was born in Zurich in 1859 to German parents and is one of the leading painters in the German-speaking world. She also gained recognition and appreciation in Paris at an early age. Like few women of her time, she devoted her entire life successfully to art and, together with her life partner, the gynaecologist Elisabeth H. Winterhalter, led an unconventional but respected existence in Germany. While Roederstein's initial work was based on academic artistic conventions, in her more mature work she increasingly opened up to other trends and in the 1920s found a personal and sober pictorial language. Despite her international recognition as a portrait and still life painter, Roederstein fell into oblivion almost immediately after her death in 1937. After several decades, the Kunsthaus Zürich and the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main are devoting the first monographic exhibition to her that accompanies this comprehensive catalogue.

Great discovery!

COLLECTION - LUDWIG MUSEUM - COLOGNE

Affiche pour le Musée Ludwig de Cologne en Allemagne.

In August, during a trip to several cities in Germany, we visited the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, which we did not know before, and its magnificent permanent collection; opened in 1986 and with an exhibition space of about 8000 m2, it is one of the most important museums of contemporary art in Europe. The museum came into being with the donation of 350 works of modern art to the city of Cologne by the collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig in 1976. After long being considered lost, the paintings of German Expressionists and other modernist artists persecuted during the war and deemed "degenerate" suddenly belonged to the citizens of the city. The original donation includes central works of Expressionism and New Objectivity, with masterpieces such as Otto Dix's "Portrait of Dr. Hans Koch" (1921) and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Halbakt mit Hut" (1911), as well as works by Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, August Macke, Heinrich Hoerle, Wilhelm Lehmbruck and Paula Modersohn-Becker.

The museum has of course been enriched over the years by important donations. It now has the largest collection of American Pop Art outside the United States (the collection includes many important works by Roy Lichtenstein - including the famous "Mmaybe-A Girl's Picture" from 1965, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg with "Soft Washstand", James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselmann - including "Great American Nude No. 98" from 1967 - and Jasper Johns), the third largest collection of Picassos in the world, outstanding works from the Russian avant-garde and an excellent collection on the history of photography.

A must-see museum if you are in Cologne!

and also :

PRISM PRINT INT. - ATKINSON G.- SOMERSET

Affiche de l'exposition de Prism Print International à la Galerie Atkinson.

From September 5 to October 6, 2022 - "Prism Print International Exhibition".

We would like to highlight for you the wonderful movement of the organisation "Prism Print International" which, for several years now, has had the aim of promoting printmaking throughout the world by exchanging different cultures (and therefore different creative sensibilities). Many artists - printmakers, lithographers, photographers - from all over the world (English, Italian, German, French, Japanese, Korean, etc.) are part of this group which organises two exhibitions per year in different countries.

The last of these exhibitions took place in Somerset, England, where the Atkinson Gallery, specialised in contemporary art, offered them its walls for a month. The Atkinson Gallery, through the Millfield Arts Projects, is a major venue for art in the South West of England.

Several artists whose work we present on our website participated in this exhibition: Vladimiro Elvieri, Jim Monson, Susan Aldworth, Mariana Tagliabue, Chiara Toni, Nigel Oxley, John Read.

What a wonderful work for the knowledge of printmaking!

JACQUES PARNEL - ILLUSTRER - CALLIAN (63)

Affiche de l'exposition de Jacques Parnel à Callian.

From 7 to 30 October 2022, our friend Jacques Parnel exhibited his work in October at the Chapelle des Pénitents in Callian in the Var.

In 1972 Jacques Parnel began a career as a freelance illustrator devoted mainly to advertising and the press. His style is realistic, influenced by the American Hyperrealists. After settling in Biot in 1978, he began a personal production as a painter (series: UFO, Folies architecturales, L'ombre d'un doute). The work on the Folie XXe series will continue for several years. At the beginning of the 2000s, interested in Abstraction, he carries out research on frames and rhythms in parallel to his various activities. A new graphic writing. This work, mainly on paper, executed in ink, allows him to discover a mode of creation that is the opposite of his previous work. In 2008, Jacques Parnel decided (he had had the idea for a very long time!) to offer some of his works to a wider public, making digital prints from acrylic works made 20 years earlier. In addition, he explores a new way of creation by making models of these crazy architectures so surprising.

The exhibition in Callian, where he now lives and works, showed all the facets of Jacques Parnel's talent. A real success!

and also :

COLLECTION - MAM - PARIS

There is so much to see, to discover and to rediscover! We regularly visit the permanent collection of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

The latter is offering a new presentation of its collections, entitled "La vie moderne", allowing us to revisit a century of art history through major works. The tour is also inspired by the major stages in the construction of the building that houses it, and by the major donations that have enriched the collection to date.

In May 1937, Paris inaugurated the International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life and the museum opened its doors for the first time in a wing of the Palais de Tokyo. Taking this founding moment as its starting point, the exhibition unfolds from the monumental rooms where the Delaunay Rhythms are presented, an evocation of this new setting of "modern life" that accompanied the first decades of the 20th century. It then develops through a thematic presentation, around the main masterpieces that entered the collections thanks to the generosity of major donors (Vollard in 1937, Girardin in 1953, Amos in 1955, Henry-Thomas in 1976, 1984, 1986). Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Derain, Dufy, Freundlich, Léger, Buffet, Rouault, Bonnard, Vuillard, Fautrier, Picabia, Ernst, de Chirico and many others are represented. Echoing the artistic movements that have shaped the history of art since Fauvism and Cubism, the focus is on both Surrealism and Realism, as well as on Abstraction and the new post-war currents that flourished in Paris, which became the "capital of modern art".

The exhibition continues with the new paths opened up by artists in the last decades of the 20th century, as they sought to definitively bridge the gap between art and life, around the Fluxus movement and the figure of Beuys, questioning the place and role of the artist in society. Thanks to the Werner donation, a sequence is dedicated to German artists confronted with the same issues in their country. The presentation continues with radical forms of abstraction and the new challenges of contemporary painting, which put the artistic gesture and pictorial creation at the turn of the 21st century into perspective. The tour ends with the latest contemporary acquisitions, which contribute to the development of a new idea of modernity, a reflection of our current societies.

EDVARD MUNCH - ORSAY MUSEUM - PARIS

Affiche de l'exposition Munch au Musée d'Orsay à Paris.

From 20 September 2022 to 22 January 2023 - "Munch - A Poem of Life, Love and Death". Munch's works, which occupy a pivotal position in artistic modernity, go beyond the norm and thus demonstrate the infinite horizon of the artist's imagination. The painter Edvard Munch elaborated the cycle of life, love and death in a poetic, philosophical and structural way, as the title of the exhibition suggests. His works are largely inspired by the vitalist philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson. For him, humanity and nature are the elements of this cycle and represent an eternal rebirth.

The exhibition "Edvard Munch. A Poem of Life, Love and Death" presents around one hundred works, including paintings, drawings, prints and engraved blocks. It covers the entire career of the Norwegian artist, whose subject throughout his work was man and nature.

The subject of this exhibition is the human being, represented in various states and variations, through a hundred singular paintings that give a disturbing and confused feeling.

The exhibition is held at the Musée d'Orsay. In collaboration with the Munch Museum in Oslo, the Musée d'Orsay is devoting four months to the famous Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, whose talent and work are still largely unknown, despite his 60 years of creation during the 19th century.

A fantastic exhibition, not to be missed (for those who can) under any pretext!

and also, with sadness :

DEATH OF PHILIPPE ZANI

We would like to pay tribute to our friend Philippe Zani, who passed away in August 2022. He was 63 years old. We will keep a very good memory of him, of his extreme kindness, of this rare quality that he had of always listening to the other, of his calm, of his laughter. We knew Philippe when he was working for the magazine Nouvelles de l'Estampe, which has unfortunately ceased publication. He had helped us, at the time, to complete our complete collection of this magazine, an inexhaustible source of knowledge on printmaking. He worked for more than 20 years with Les Nouvelles de l'Estampe of the Print Department of the BNF and also collaborated with the audio-visual department of the BNF from 2004. Also in our memory is that delightful day when he received us at his home in Saint Germain en Laye, in his den, an amazing place, overflowing with objects and memories, an amazing place in his image. He also had there his enormous collection of vinyl records, notably on world songs, and had created a musical structure (zaniphil.com); in the past, his actions in this field were multiple: he was the author of more than 150 compilations of World Music. Philippe was a specialist and collector of music from the 10s to the 60s.

Our thoughts are with you, rest in peace, dear Philippe!