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Barthélémy Toguo — Water is a Right
Past: September 7 → October 7
Galerie Lelong & Co. is delighted to announce “Water is a Right”, the new exhibition by French-Cameroonian artist Barthélemy Toguo. This time, Barthélémy Toguo has “created a dream”, in which he invites viewers to discover new works, conceived for the exhibition as part of a residency at the Picasso Museum in Barcelon…

Painting, sculpture
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Christine Safa — La forme rêvée d’une forme vue
Past: May 10 → July 13
The bursting onto the contemporary art scene of the Franco-Lebanese artist Christine Safa in 2021 and 2022 has drawn great notice in France and abroad. She joined the Galerie Lelong & Co. when she was 27, where she quickly found a promising position.
Safa’s paintings, with their juxtaposition of colours and forms, …

Painting
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Barry Flanagan — Quand Barry rencontre Jarry
Past: March 9 → April 29
In 1964, Barry Flanagan was 23 years old. He had already received a classical art education in Birmingham, had all sorts of odd jobs (antique dealer, cook, model, film set designer, etc.) and hung out with poets. He moved to London, had Phillip King and Anthony Caro as teachers at St Martin’s School, and started a sma…

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David Nash — Sculptures et papiers
Past: January 12 → March 4
To open 2023, Galerie Lelong & Co. is exhibiting a collection of recent works by the British artist David Nash. For 50 years, he has been guided by a creative instinct obedient to his preferred subject: trees. Often taking the form of sculptures — sometimes monumental, sometimes humbler in format — David Nash adapts t…

Painting
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Ficre Ghebreyesus — Map / Quilt
Past: September 8 → October 22, 2022
La galerie Lelong & Co. présente la première exposition en France de l’artiste américain d’origine érythréenne Ficre Ghebreyesus (1962-2012). Inconnu de son vivant, ce n’est qu’après sa soudaine disparition en 2012 que son travail a véritablement commencé à faire l’objet de recherches, d’expositions et d’un intérêt toujours plus important.

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Marc Desgrandchamps — Le tourment de la ligne d’horizon
Past: March 17 → May 7, 2022
For his first exhibition at the Avenue Matignon premises of Galerie Lelong & Co., Marc Desgrandchamps is presenting a brand-new set of works on paper: postcards reproducing paintings from a variety of periods, covered by the artist with cut-outs of images of his own works.
Marc Desgrandchamps’ paintings are inspir…

Painting
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Wang Yan Cheng — Peintures
Past: January 13 → March 12, 2022
Born in China, and a graduate of the Shandong Institute of Fine Arts, Wang Yan Cheng moved to France in the early 1990s to acquire a deeper knowledge of western art and be closer to his esteemed predecessors, Zao Wou-Ki and Chu Teh-Chun, whom he greatly admired. Living and working alternately between Beijing and Paris…

Painting
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Fabienne Verdier — Arias — Nouvelles estampes
Past: November 18, 2021 → January 8, 2022
In 2014, Fabienne Verdier was invited by the Julliard School in New York, the famous performing arts conservatory, to explore the interaction between music and painting. This experiment has now been repeated and developed with the voice. While listening in her studio to some of Mozart’s most famous arias, the artist a…

Screen-printing
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Ernest Pignon-Ernest — Haïti, le secret cheminement du sang
Past: September 9 → November 10, 2021
After Saint-Malo, where in 2011 Ernest Pignon-Ernest spoke in public with Jean Rouaud, the Etonnants Voyageurs festival and Michel Le Bris responded to a request from Haitian authors and invited him to Port-au-Prince. The festival included film screenings, discussions and encounters with Caribbean writers.

Drawing, photography, mixed media
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Kiki Smith — From Inside
Past: May 20 → July 13, 2021
For this new exhibition (the eighth at Galerie Lelong), which she has entitled From Inside, Kiki Smith has brought together a group of new bronzes representing hands, which she juxtaposes with two great emblematic works from the 1990s.

Mixed media
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Sarah Grilo — Indicios
Past: March 11 → April 30, 2021
In October 2018, Galerie Lelong & Co. presented an inaugural selection of works on paper by the Argentinian artist, Sarah Grilo. For many visitors, she was a discovery. This new exhibition focuses on her canvases from the 1980s and 1990s; compositions that incorporate graffiti, figures and letters or extracts of words.

Painting
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Jan Voss — À l’écoute
Past: January 14 → February 27, 2021
The painter noticed that often a word or a short phrase either heard, read or imagined would be the catalyst for images emerging in his mind. This was particularly true during the long weeks of forced isolation the artist spent in his Berlin studio during the lockdown.

Painting
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Frank Horvat — Vraies Semblances, 1981-1986
Past: June 18 → October 10, 2020
The idea of referring to famous master-pieces probably came to me from a thought that had often crossed my mind when glancing at some woman who struck me as particularly beautiful, but who didn’t seem conscious of her beauty, and whom a fashion editor would never have allowed me to photograph for a magazine.

Photography
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Dave Nash — Red, Black & Blue
Past: January 23 → March 7, 2020
At 38 avenue Matignon : Alongside his main activity of wood sculpting, over the last years David Nash has developed a body of work using pastels. In his drawings, he has succeeded in maintaining the main quality of his sculpture: its simplicity.

Drawing, painting, sculpture...
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Paris Gallery Weekend — Édition 2019
Past: May 17 → 19, 2019
Over the course of its 5 previous editions, Paris Gallery Weekend marked itself as the Springtime “rendez-vous” for Paris and its art scene. The 6th edition of Paris Gallery Weekend will take place from Friday 17 May to Sunday 19 May 2019 and 48 galleries have already confirmed their participation so far (see list below).

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Architecture, ceramic, collage...
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Sarah Grilo — Signos
Past: October 13 → November 17, 2018
Galerie Lelong & Co. is presenting for the first time a selection of works on paper by the Argentinean artist Sarah Grilo (1919 — 2007). These works, created in Madrid between 1970 and 1990, are among the most emblematic of her output.

Drawing, print, painting
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David Hockney — Portraits
Past: May 26 → July 13, 2018
A year after the triumphant retrospective to celebrate his 80th birthday (Tate Britain, London — Centre Pompidou, Paris — Metropolitan Museum, New York), David Hockney is back with a series of drawings produced on iPad and iPhone.

Drawing, painting
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