Almost 100 years of Surrealism
As Surrealism approaches its 100th anniversary (André Breton’s First Manifesto was published on 15 October 1924) and continues to enjoy contemporary appeal, leading figures of the movement will be represented, including René Magritte, Max Ernst and Salvador Dalí.
Women Sculptors: Stars are reborn
Women sculptors will also take centre stage, with a group of rare works by Germaine Richier, Jane Poupelet and the trailblazing Camille Claudel who will receive her first major show in the US this autumn, 80 years after her death.
The Persisting Allure of Abstraction
Abstract art – a genre that has recently made strides in the secondary market – will feature strongly, with examples by eminent modern and contemporary artists tracing the development of abstraction since its inception a century ago. Pioneers of the movement, such as František Kupka, will be represented alongside post-war seminal figures – Hans Hartung, Victor Vasarely, Serge Poliakoff, Jean Dubuffet – as well as contemporary masters like Yayoi Kusama and Gerhard Richter.
New Finds & Discoveries
In anticipation of the fair, the 110 exhibitors have been saving up new finds and unseen discoveries. Among these are a previously unrecorded work by The Master of the Female Half-lengths, one of the most popular Dutch painters of the second-quarter of the 16th century; an astonishing sculpture of the French grand siècle – an early 17th-century terracotta by Gervais II Delabarre, depicting the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception; and Art Deco masterpieces, including a 1925 screen panel by Art Deco virtuoso Armand-Albert Rateau and a 1935 vase made for the SS Normandie, the ultimate transatlantic ocean liner.
Cultural Events
FAB Paris (formerly known as Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale) was created in February 2022, in a move to combine the synergies, expertise and global reputation of two highly regarded French art fairs: La Biennale des Antiquaires and Fine Arts Paris. The world-renowned Biennale des Antiquaires was founded in 1956 by André Malraux, the famed novelist and France’s Minister of Cultural Affairs. Over the following six decades, the event, hosted at the Grand Palais, had become one of the world’s grandest decorative arts fairs and one of the most important cultural events in Paris.
GRAND PALAIS EPHÉMÈRE | 22nd – 26th NOVEMBER 2023
For more information, please visit fabparis.com
See also: L’Art Informel at Opera Gallery
