HISTORY OF
FINE ARTS PARIS

2017

Creation of Fine Arts Paris by the organizers of the Salon du Dessin: L’Agence d’Événements Culturels.
This new event which they hoped to be eclectic, selective, and convivial, aimed to confirm Paris’ position as a major centre for the international art market.
So, for the first edition, 34 galleries from France, Europe and the USA presented their latest acquisitions in the prestigious Palais Brongniart.

2018

For its second edition, Fine Arts Paris has developed its cultural program and has created a Fine Arts Week.

Like the “Drawing Week” held every year in March for the past twenty years or so, the aim of this week is to encourage the discovery or rediscovery of  museums collections in Paris and the Ile-de-France.

Collectors, connoisseurs and experts are invited to private exclusive events, great occasions for exchanges and wonder, thanks to the involvement of curators and directors of the partner institutions of Fine Arts Paris.

The Fine Arts Week
Sculpture week

To echo especially important recent events in the world of Sculpture, the first Fine Arts Week was entirely dedicated to this art.

The Fine Arts Week 2018, called for this occasion Sculpture Week, ran from Monday 5 to Sunday 11 November 2018.

Publication
The Heyday of Sculpture

On the occasion of its second edition, FINE ARTS PARIS is proud to publish The Heyday of Sculpture : 1850 – 1880, gathering 12 scientific texts from renowned scholars, under the supervision of Mrs Antoinette Le Normand-Romain.

Exhibition
“Sculptors as Painters, Painters as Sculptors”
The example of Henry de Triqueti

The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Orléans and the Musée Girodet in Montargis have worked together to present at Fine Arts Paris the rich work of Henry de Triqueti (1803-1874), a painter whose sculptures made him famous.

The two museums, which were bequeathed the contents of the artist’s studio by his daughter, Blanche Lee Childe, will exhibit selected pieces that show how diverse Triqueti’s materials and techniques were, among them line drawing, polychrome, terracotta studies, oil painting, plaster modellos and fine marble.

A typical 19th century artist in terms of the creative abundance of his research, Triqueti freely combined different materials and drawing styles, as did Eugène Devéria and other contemporaries, to illustrate original, appealing aesthetic concepts.

Henry de Triqueti (1803-1874) : Homère se désaltérant

Henry de TRIQUETI
(1803-1874)
Homère se désaltérant
Inv. 947.51, Musée Girodet, Montargis

2019

In 2019, for its third edition, Fine Arts Paris pursued its wish to promote the influence of Paris as a stronghold of the world art market thanks to the works selected by its exhibitors and a rich program of cultural events composed of a museum exhibition within the Salon itself, and a Fine Arts Week, organized in partnership with some twenty Ile-de-France institutions and museums.

Exhibition
La Piscine de Roubaix

As guest of the Fine Arts Paris 2019 edition, La Piscine – Musée d’Art et d’industrie André Diligent de Roubaix presented a museum-quality exhibition at the fair. This exhibition has sum up the spirit of the museum with a selection from its collection.

La Piscine–Musée d’Art et d’Industrie André-Diligent in Roubaix, France, is a true success story: a municipal building typical of the 1920s has been converted into a museum that is praised far beyond the borders of France.

With the support of La Piscine’s Friends Society and Circle of Patrons, the museum’s team has welcome visitors to the show with iconic works by such artists as Camille Claudel, Joseph Bernard, Marc Chagall, Jean Lurçat, Albert Braïtou-Sala, Jean-René Gauguin, Christian Astuguevieille and Marc Alberghina. The centre of the space was occupied by an unusual, never-before-exhibited plaster by Paul Cornet (1892-1977), a sort of futuristic reinterpretation of Rodin’s The Thinker. La Piscine was seeking donors for its restoration.

Paul Cornet, Le Penseur

Paul CORNET
1892- 1977
Penseur
Plâtre
87 x 40 x 37 cm
Don de la famille de l’artiste en 2018
Inv. 2018-17-9
Copyright La Piscine-Roubaix – Photos A.Leprince

Street-Art performance
Andrea Ravo Mattoni reproduces Luca Giordano

Thursday the 14th of November, live performance of Andrea Ravo Mattoni at Fine Arts Paris. The street-artist reproduced a work by Luca Giordano (1634-1705), whose retrospective exhibition opened in the Petit Palais on the same day.

After the Fair, Ravo’s work was exhibited at the Le Sinner hotel, 116 rue du Temple in Paris and  sold in the urban art Artcurial sale on February 23, 2020. It was auctioned for 7,000 euros (including fees).

The sale’s benefits were for the restoration of the plaster The Thinker by Paul Cornet, kept in La Piscine – musée d’art et d’industrie André Diligent of Roubaix. 

Andrea Ravo Mattoni, Work from his street-art performance at Fine Arts Paris 2019, exhibited at the hotel Le Sinner, Artcurial charity auction

Andrea RAVO MATTONI
Untitled, 2019
Spay paint on canvas
Signed, dated and titled on the back
Detail from a work by Luca Giordano (1634-1705), “Ariane abandonnée”

2020

Due to the announcement of a 4-week confinement and despite the determination of its organizers, Fine Arts Paris was forced to cancel its edition scheduled for November 26 to 29, 2020 at the Palais Brongniart, as well as the Semaine des Beaux- Arts and a scientific symposium.

An alternative 100% digital edition entitled FINE ARTS PARIS ONLINE, took place from November 24 to 29. It brought together 55 participating galleries with nearly 500 works.

 

2021

For its 5th édition, Fine Arts Paris hosted some 60 galleries at the Carrousel du Louvre and Online, from 6 to 11 November 2021. 

Although intimate in dimensions, the young fair was nevertheless ambitious, bringing together the best dealers in the fields of painting, drawing and sculpture but also opening to new specialties like primitive arts, jewellery, Asian art and rare books. 

Alongside its habitual exhibitors – Steinitz, Xavier Eeckhout, La Présidence and Marianne Rosenberg – this year’s edition of FINE ARTS PARIS will be hosting new dealers like De Jonckheere, Christian Deydier, Librairie Clavreuil, Royal Provenance, Tanakaya, Patrick & Ondine Mestdagh, Robilant + Voena, Laocoon-Apolloni, as well as the jewellers Véronique Bamps and Walid Akkad. 

A scenography by Jacques Garcia

Jacques Garcia has added his sober and elegant touch to the fair’s scenography by transforming the entrance under the famous glass Pyramid.

From the start, visitors found themselves in a strangely oneiric world. The famous decorator and interior designer has taken inspiration from the 14th century (Charles V) defence system discovered when the Carrousel was being built.

The result will be a Contemporary theatrical atmosphere involving 14 mineral and vegetable ‘elements’. 

Entrée de Fine Arts Paris 2021 par Jacques Garcia

The Arts Week

One of Fine Arts Paris’s strong points is its links between collectors, dealers and institutions.

Apart from attracting numerous museum curators, Fine Arts Paris organises an Arts Week, an external itinerary offering private visits to around twenty partner museums including the Victor Hugo House, the Condé Museum, The Army Museum (Musée de l’Armée), the Artists Foundation, the Château de Fontainebleau, Paris’s School of Fine Arts (Beaux-Arts de Paris) and the Emile Hermès Collection. 

Two symposiums

Fine Arts Paris also hosted two scientific symposiums at the Petit Palais: one devoted to Watteau and his entourage, marking the 300th anniversary of the death of this central figure in 18th century French art. The other discussed the research conducted by Geneviève Bresc-Bautier into 16th and 17th century sculpture, in collaboration with Sophie Jugie, Director of the Louvre Sculpture Department.
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Colloque 2021 - Watteau - Jean-Baptiste Pater, Fête galante

Jean-Baptiste Pater
Fête galante
Oil on panel, 48.6 × 64.5 cm
Chicago, Art Institute, Max and Leola Epstein Collection, inv. 1954.295
© The Art Institute of Chicago

2022

This 6th edition inaugurated the synergy with the Biennale Paris. The show was held under the name “Fine Arts Paris la Biennale”. It took place at the Carrousel du Louvre from November 9 to 13, 2022, and brought together 84 exhibitors.

Conference
The current issues of the art market in galleries

On the occasion of Fine Arts Paris & la Biennale, this discussion moderated by Guy Boyer, editorial director of Connaissance des Arts, focused on the current challenges facing galleries.

Conference organized by Connaissance des Arts, with the Syndicat National des Antiquaires and the Comité professionnel des galeries d’art. It was held in the conference room of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD), 111 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris

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Exhibition
The Lurçat house-studio
Fondation Jean et Simone Lurçat – Académie des beaux-arts

At the heart of the Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale, we invited the Jean and Simone Lurçat Foundation – Academy of Fine Arts to let the public discover the atmosphere of the Lurçat house-studio, through photographs of the spaces and a panel of works representative of Jean Lurçat’s creativity: tapestries, paintings, drawings…

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View of the exhibition of The Lurçat house-studio

Study day
Questions of style and interior design

This study day, which takes advantage of the physical proxi­mity between Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale with the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, examined these interior reconstitutions from different points of view, bringing into play collecting and museum practices, material culture, intellectual discourse, and social habitus.

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MAD: – Salon du bois : Georges Hœntschel (1855-1915)- Paris, 1900- Platane d’Algérie, verre, laiton ; tenture en soie dessinée par Adrien Karbowsky (1855-1945) et réalisée par la maison Le Borgne ; peinture L’Île heureuse d’Albert Besnard (1849-1934) – H. 7,12 ; L. 14,3 ; l. 6 m – Achat, 1900 – Inv. 9403 A-G © MAD, Paris / photo : Philippe Chancel

2023 Edition

In 2023, Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale became FAB Paris.
The salon was held at the Grand Palais Éphémère from November 22nd to 26th, 2023, where it brought together 110 exhibitors from 12 countries representing 12 specialties.

2024 Edition

Under the glass roof of the Grand Palais, 100 exhibitors gathered for the 2024 edition of FAB Paris, from November 22nd to 27th, 2024. More than 25% of them were newcomers and one-third were foreign dealers from 9 different countries. Together, they represented nearly 20 specialties.

Over the course of six days, the event welcomed over 30,000 visitors.

2025 Edition

FAB Paris kicked off the major art fair season at the start of the 2025 academic year by bringing together around a hundred internationally renowned exhibitors in the main hall of the Grand Palais from 20 to 24 September, in a reimagined setting based on an original concept by Constance Guisset and scenography by Sylvie Zerat.

The guest of honour at this year’s event was the Nissim de Camondo Museum.

A look back in pictures at FAB Paris 2025

A look back in pictures at FAB Paris 2025

Tuesday, 30 September 2025

High-quality, creative museum exhibits, top-notch galleries, a high standard of selected pieces, and a warm atmosphere shared by visitors: a look back in pictures at the superb FAB Paris 2025 edition, praised by the press, featuring all of our exhibitors’ stands.

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The Nissim de Camondo Museum, guest of honour at FAB Paris 2025

The Nissim de Camondo Museum, guest of honour at FAB Paris 2025

Update Thursday Sep.18, 2025

The Nissim de Camondo Museum will exhibit artworks outside its walls for the first time in its history.
As part of its restoration, a selection of approximately sixty major artworks will be exceptionally presented to the public during the 2025 edition of FAB Paris, with the aim of mobilizing the heritage community around the Camondo legacy.

A donation campaign has been launched to support its restoration: link in this article.

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The FAB Paris 2025 catalogue

The FAB Paris 2025 catalogue

Friday, 12 September 2025

Prepare for your visit to FAB Paris with the catalogue!
Find all the exhibitors, guests, committees and partners for the 2025 edition, which will be held at the Grand Palais from 20 to 24 September.

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Creation of the CPGA-FAB Prize

Creation of the CPGA-FAB Prize

Wednesday, 3 September 2025

The Professional Committee of Art Galleries and FAB Paris are pleased to announce the creation of the CPGA-FAB Prize, which will be awarded for the first time during the 2025 edition of the fair.

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Young Talents of FAB Paris 2025

Young Talents of FAB Paris 2025

Tuesday, 5 August 2025

For the third consecutive year, FAB Paris’s ‘Young Talents’ space is giving young dealers the opportunity to exhibit pieces priced at less than €25,000.

This year, the exhibition curators have chosen Joseph Lacroix-Nahmias, Arthur Laurentin, Thomas Rey and Manolo Vosse.

The scenography for this space has been entrusted to young architect and designer Edgar Jayet.

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100 studios, 100 artists, The French scene

100 studios, 100 artists, The French scene

Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Connaissance des Arts and photographer Antoine Schneck are unveiling a preview of around thirty photos from the series 100 ateliers, 100 artistes La scène française (100 studios, 100 artists: the French scene) at FAB Paris.

Produced between 2015 and 2022, this project uses multiple portraits of artists in their studios to highlight the importance of these places in their lives.

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Beautés désordonnées

Beautés désordonnées

Monday, 30 June 2025

On the occasion of FAB Paris 2025, an unprecedented collaboration between galleries 1900-2000, Brimo de Laroussilhe, Clavreuil, Didier Claes and Georges Philippe & Nathalie Vallois will give birth to “Beauté désordonnées,” a collective exhibition curated by Jean-Hubert Martin that disrupts the traditional codes of artistic presentation.

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Constance Guisset elevates FAB Paris

Constance Guisset elevates FAB Paris

Tuesday 24 June 2025

For the 2025 edition of FAB Paris, renowned designer Constance Guisset brings her creative signature to Sylvie Zerat’s scenography. Between artistic complicity and spatial innovation, this unprecedented collaboration transforms the Grand Palais into a colorful showcase where the excitement of the fair blends with art contemplation.

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FAB Paris in Asia: Strengthening Ties

FAB Paris in Asia: Strengthening Ties

Wednesday 18 June 2025

FAB Paris is stepping up its international outreach strategy with a high-profile mission to Shanghai, China, confirming its ambition to become a must-attend event for Asian collectors.

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Third concert of the Gautier Capuçon Foundation at FAB Paris

Third concert of the Gautier Capuçon Foundation at FAB Paris

Wednesday 11 June 2025

For the third consecutive year, FAB Paris invites artists from the Gautier Capuçon Foundation to perform a concert at the fair.

It will take place on Saturday, September 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM in the Nave of the Grand Palais featuring a duo performance by Elise Bertrand, violin, and Gabriel Durliat, piano.

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2026 Edition

Looking back
at the 2026 edition
of Fine Arts Paris

'The 2026 edition of Fine Arts Paris was a resounding success: a vibrant atmosphere, outstanding sales, and an exceptionally active international clientele.

 

A promising sign for 2027.'


Xavier Eeckhout,
President of Fine Arts Paris

As France’s only international multidisciplinary arts event, Fine Arts Paris brought together, at the Grand Palais in September, around a hundred galleries covering all periods and specialisms of the art market.

For this 2026 edition the interior designer Charles Zana brought his creativity to the fair’s scenography.

For the first time, the fair formed part of the "Journées européennes du patrimoine" programme.

Hélène Mouradian et Xavier Eeckhout

© Zionsay

Guest of Honour:
The Musée du Grand Siècle

The Musée du Grand Siècle, which is scheduled to open in 2028, presented its project and collections at Fine Arts Paris.

It offered a preview of the “Grand Siècle” display, which will be installed in its future permanent galleries in Saint-Cloud, featuring a selection of paintings, sculptures, furniture, precious objects and everyday items that tell the story of the arts, sciences and society in 17th-century France.

“New Horizons”: A new section championing new dealers and contemporary makers

It welcomed eleven dealers who were just starting their activity or who had never exhibited at an international fair, as well as contemporary makers across fields as varied as jewellery, ceramics and textiles.

Design luminaries
picked their must-see pieces

Fine Arts Paris strongly reaffirmed its commitment to the worlds of creation, interior design and design, once again inviting a prestigious panel of renowned interior designers to share their “favourites” from among the works presented by the exhibitors.

And also:

A look back in pictures at the 2026 edition

A look back in pictures at the 2026 edition

Wednesday 30 September 2026

Museum-quality exhibitions, new exhibitors and young dealers, acquisitions by museums and international collectors, a scenography by Charles Zana: a look back in pictures at Fine Arts Paris 2026, an edition acclaimed by the press, through the stands of exhibitors, partners and guests.

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Building an art collection: the AXA talk

Building an art collection: the AXA talk

On Tuesday 22 September at 7pm, AXA brings together three experts, Daphné de Marolles, Clarisse Hermelin and Alix Powis, to unpack the key stages of building an art collection, on its stand C26 at the Grand Palais.

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How Fine Arts Paris champions the safeguarding of heritage

How Fine Arts Paris champions the safeguarding of heritage

Friday 18 September 2026

For the first time, Fine Arts Paris joins the European Heritage Days. A look at the fair’s commitment to safeguarding heritage: a guest museum of honour, support for the “Le Plus Grand Musée de France” campaign, and a collaboration with Ville de Paris around the conservation of its artworks.

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The Fine Arts Paris 2026 catalogue

The Fine Arts Paris 2026 catalogue

Monday 14 September 2026

In this catalogue, you will find all the exhibitors, guests, committees and partners of Fine Arts Paris 2026, which takes place at the Grand Palais from 19 to 23 September

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France’s Greatest Museum at Fine Arts Paris 2026

France’s Greatest Museum at Fine Arts Paris 2026

Tuesday 8 September 2026

The Fondation pour la Sauvegarde de l’Art Français is exhibiting three restored seventeenth-century masterpieces on stand S18 at Fine Arts Paris, as part of its campaign “Le Plus Grand Musée de France”.

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Second edition of the CPGA–Fine Arts Paris Prize

Second edition of the CPGA–Fine Arts Paris Prize

Friday 4 September 2026

For its second edition, the CPGA-Fine Arts Paris Prize rewards the stand that combines originality and high standards. It will be awarded on Friday 18 September 2026 at 5.30pm at the Grand Palais, by a jury bringing together collectors, art market professionals and cultural institutions.

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“New Horizons” section: the next generation

“New Horizons” section: the next generation

Thursday 27 August 2026

Fine Arts Paris is launching “New Horizons”, a new section of the fair reserved for eleven young dealers who are either starting out or exhibiting at a major international fair for the first time.

Specialising in varied fields, these galleries combine a digital presence with a strong attachment to meeting collectors in person.

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The VIP lounge by Studio Andrée Putman

The VIP lounge by Studio Andrée Putman

Friday 14 August, 2026

Studio Andrée Putman is presenting a selection of pieces in the VIP lounge at Fine Arts Paris. This exhibition is part of the celebration of the centennial of its iconic founder, Andrée Putman.

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AXA, official partner of Fine Arts Paris

AXA, official partner of Fine Arts Paris

Saturday 11 July, 2026

At Fine Arts Paris 2026, Fabienne Verdier and the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres are presenting a brand-new collaboration supported by AXA, the fair’s official partner.

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Fourth concert of the Fondation Gautier Capuçon

Fourth concert of the Fondation Gautier Capuçon

Thursday 25 June, 2026

Fine Arts Paris is welcoming artists from the Fondation Gautier Capuçon to give a concert during the fair, on Saturday 19 September 2026, with a duo performance by Mirabelle Kajenjeri (piano) and Elias David Moncado (violin).

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The Musée du Grand Siècle guest of honour at Fine Arts Paris 2026

The Musée du Grand Siècle guest of honour at Fine Arts Paris 2026

Friday 22 May 2026
The Musée du Grand Siècle, due to open in 2028, will present its project and collections at Fine Arts Paris from 19 to 23 September 2026. In particular, it will discuss the ‘Grand Siècle’ exhibition, which will be on display in its future permanent galleries in Saint-Cloud.

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