HISTORY OF
FINE ARTS PARIS

2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025

Visit of the French Minister of Culture Franck Riester

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

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.

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.

Roubaix-la-Piscine. Architecte A.Baert, 1932 ; J-P Philippon, 2001 et 2018. Photos : A. Leprince

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.

Founded in 1835 by local manufacturers, the Roubaix museum made a splash on the national cultural scene when it moved in 2001 to an unusual site: a former swimming pool in the Art Deco style. In 2018, to make room for important works kept in its reserves, La Piscine was expanded by architect Jean-Paul Philippon, who had designed the original transformation in 2001. La Piscine’s collection and programming stand out in the French museum landscape.

For its exhibition at Fine Arts Paris, the museum demonstrated its originality with a group of works that included ceramics, sculpture, textiles, fashion and painting. The museum’s setting and history, closely linked to the industrial heritage of Roubaix, was also addressed by recent images and archival documents.

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.

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. 

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.

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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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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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 2025 art fair season by bringing together around 100 internationally renowned exhibitors under the roof of the Grand Palais from 20 to 24 September.

Its FABulous programme:

• Around a hundred international art galleries in 20 specialities.
• A redesigned setting based on an original idea by Constance Guisset and scenography by Sylvie Zerat.
•  An exclusive exhibition of around sixty major works from the Musée Nissim de Camondo, curated by Alexandre Benjamin Navet.
• Favourites of designers and decorators, including Jean-Charles de Castelbaljac, Timothy Corrigan, Nathalie Crinière, François-Joseph Graf, Constance Guisset, Pier-Luigi Pizzi, Jean-Michel Wilmotte and Charles Zana.
• A spectacular tribute by the Galerie Vallois to the centenary of Art Deco within the Grand Palais itself, where the movement was consecrated during the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in 1925.
• 50 masterpieces of modern art (Picasso, Magritte, Giacometti, etc.) from exceptional sources unveiled by Galerie Landau (Canada/Switzerland)
• ‘Beautés Désordonnées’ (Disordered Beauties), a joint exhibition bringing together 140 pieces from the 1900-2000, Brimo de Laroussilhe, Georges Philippe and Nathalie Vallois, Didier Claes and Stéphane Clavreuil galleries, curated by art historian Jean-Hubert Martin, former director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne (Centre G. Pompidou) in the spirit of Carambolages.
• 100 studios, 100 artists The French scene, a preview exhibition of some thirty photographs from Antoine Schneck‘s series, revealing multiple portraits of artists in their studios.
• A Young Talents space designed by young architect and designer Edgar Jayet.
• A concert by the winners of the Gautier Capuçon Foundation
• The prize for the most beautiful stand awarded by the CPGA, partner of FAB PARIS
• Live restoration of a painting by Hippolyte Lazerges from the Chapelle de la Sorbonne by the COARC (Conservation des œuvres d’art religieuses et civiles) – Ville de Paris
• An Arts Week offering exclusive VIP tours of around twenty partner museums.