GALERIE SCHOFFEL DE FABRY

The Galerie Schoffel de Fabry, run by a family of antique dealers specialising in Primitive Art since the 1960s, enjoys an international reputation. It has contributed to the development of major collections, both private and institutional, in France and abroad. The gallery’s expertise extends to the arts of Oceania, Africa, North America and South-East Asia.

True to its interdisciplinary ethos, it organises and participates in numerous art exhibitions, such as Jackson Pollock and Shamanism at the Pinacothèque de Paris and Return from Expedition at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature. The gallery organises themed exhibitions such as, amongst others: Victor Brauner and Primitive Arts, Ivory Coast: First Glimpses of Sculpture, 1850–1935, Beyond the Mask, Téké Portraits, … most often accompanied by publications.

The Galerie Schoffel de Fabry will be exhibiting a collection of primitive art at the Grand Palais, specially selected for FINE ARTS PARIS 2026.

Of particular note is a rare ‘nama tyétyé’ headdress, a Bambara sculpture attributed to the Banimounitié region of Mali, created to accompany performances of a dance known as ‘nama tyétyé’.

Surrounded by ancient artefacts from Africa, Oceania and South-East Asia, visitors will discover the ‘Inverted Paintings’, a series of works by the artist ALMartin (born in 1949), resulting from processes that draw on the passage of time. The very same time that strips human creations of their anecdotal context, revealing them as works of art centuries later.

“A work of time and matter; the necessarily slow, brushstroke-by-brushstroke juxtaposition of coloured densities is fundamentally a Seurat-esque reverie on light, on transformations and on the equivalences between light and matter.” “He turns almost nothing into a monument, three sous into a Milky Way, a blot into a continent” – Philippe Cyroulnik.

Building on this observation, the gallery will endeavour to highlight the mystical and unconscious links the artist maintains with archaic forms, mirrored in the arts of the primitive.

Judith Schoffel de Fabry has been President of the Compagnie Nationale des Experts en art (CNE) since 2021.