36, avenue Matignon - 75008 PARIS

Contact ARTFRANCE :
tél : 33.(0)1.4359.1789 - fax : 33.(0)1.4563.8483

Occupying the same address since 1975, the Gallery exhibits the work of artists, painters and sculptors in tune with their times, yet who reject "one-track thinking".

In one of the rooms, a permanent display shows figurative canvases stripped bare of their trappings, devoid of all superfluity, intensifying the underlying thought yet further and catching the onlooker's imagination.
The remaining room is devoted to works which explore a different, yet related, trend, created by artists seeking to grasp the naked truth of space through abstraction, never allowing themselves to be overwhelmed by pure cerebrality, so as to be able to preserve gut instinct and spontaneous gesture.

The dichotomy between these two forms of expression is no more, the gulf which divided them in the 1940s/50s with the advent of abstraction has long since disappeared. The cursor has shifted, the divide is now between real painting and real sculpture, on the one hand, and the startling, to say the least,approaches of the present day, on the other.

But figurative or abstract, these are authentic artists, a far cry from the trendsetters and obtrusive publicists. Working away unstintingly in the silence of their studios, surmounting obstacles and succeeding in their research.

They carry with them a vast culture and sink their roots into the common ground of great French painting, revisiting it with a new contemporary eye. They safeguard its perpetual rebirth without the need for a giant tsunami spectacle, wiping out the past.

The gallery also exhibits the work of sculptors devoted to creating original works in bronze, for sculpture does not attempt to copy nature, nor even cast from its mould, but transposes it through it slaws and abstractions to turn it into a timeless reality.

Every year, the gallery stages a major personal exhibition for one of its artists, incorporating around forty pieces representing the last three or four years of their work.

ARTFRANCE also holds prestigious events for them in the Museums and Foundations of France, including the Chateau de Chenonceau, the Museums of Menton, Valence and Quimper, the Post Office museum in Paris, and the Orangery at Versailles. On the agenda: SUMMER 2008 at Chateau de Vascoeuil, retrospective Pierre Boncompain.
Abroad: May in France at the Li Garden, Hong Kong; Shanghai Art Museum, China.
Scheduled for 2008/2009: Shanghai Art Museum and Beijing, China.

Having always been a window open onto the world, the Gallery is very keen to explore such 'cross influences', and plans to host exhibitions of selected foreign artists, figurative or abstract, to spread their renown in Paris and the rest of France.

ARTFRANCE publishes original lithographs, books and exhibition catalogues.

Opening days:

Monday to Saturday, 10am to 7pm.

Permanent exhibition of all artists of the gallery.
Editions and sales of lithographs, books and catalogues.

Direction :
- Carole Senille, expert of modern art at Court of Appeal in Paris, expert for French Customs.
- Claude Verrier

Métro : stations Franklin Roosevelt ligne 1 et 9, et Miromesnil ligne 9 et 13
Bus : n° 28, 32, 52, 80, 83 et 93