Travel. Paris. Paris Galleries
The City of Paris is divided into twenty arrondissements. They are arranged in the form of a clockwise spiral, starting with the first in the middle of the city on the right bank (north bank) of the Seine River. Select an arrondissement on the map below to view the France Today listings for that area.
1st
Galerie Schmit
396 rue St-Honoré, 1st
Métro: Concorde
01.42.60.36.36
One of the top galleries in town, run by third-generation owner Manuel Schmit, offering museum-quality paintings by 19th- and 20th-century French masters, including Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Matisse, Caillebotte, Boudin, Seurat, Signac, Sisley, Redon and Vuillard, along with Klee, Miró, Modigliani and Jongkind.
Louvre des Antiquaires
2 place du Palais Royal, 1st
Métro: Palais Royal
01.42.97.27.27
A vast, three-story building with 250 galleries covering some 30 different areas of expertise, from archaeology, coins and stamps to medieval manuscripts, Art Deco furnishings and fine jewelry.
Galerie du Passage
20-26 Galerie Vero-Dodat, 1st
Métro: Louvre
01.42.36.01.13
Well-known dealer Pierre Passebon opened his two-story gallery in the beautiful covered passage Véro-Dodat in 1991, specializing in late 19th-century, 20th-century and contemporary furnishings and objets d'art, and also contemporary photography.
3rd
Galerie Daniel Templon
30 rue Beaubourg, 3rd
Métro: Rambuteau
01.42.72.14.10
A contemporary gallery featuring established and up-and-coming artists.
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
76 rue de Turenne, 3rd
Métro: St-Sébastien-Froissart
01.42.16.79.79
One of the city’s hottest contemporary galleries, showing works by Sophie Calle, Maurizioo Cattelan, Wim Delvoye, Takashi Murakami and Jean-Michel Othoniel.
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
7 rue Debelleyme, 3rd
Métro: Filles-du-Calvaire
01.42.72.99.00
A chic contemporary art gallery run by the noted Austrian dealer Ropac, located in a Marais courtyard. Among the artists he reagularly shows are Mimmo Paladino, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Tom Sachs and Gilbert & George.
Galerie Yvon Lambert
108 rue Vieille du Temple, 3rd
Métro: Filles-du-Calvaire
01.42.71.09.33
Lambert, who also has galleries in New York and London, is one of France’s most prominent contemporary art collectors—his own collection is on show in a private mansion-museum in Avignon, his home town. Among the artists shown at the Paris gallery are Kiefer, Serrano, Barceló, Wesselmann, Goldin and LeWitt.
4th
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15 rue des Tournelles
01.42.77.62.16
Happening art-and-fashion gallery in the Marais, home of the makers of the 2009 limited-edition Nike sneakers.
Jean-Jacques Dutko
4 rue de Bretonvilliers, 4th
Métro: Sully-Morland
and
11 rue Bonaparte, 6th
Métro: St. Germain des Prés
01.43.26.17.77 and 01.56.24.04.20
As well as his original gallery on the Left Bank, Art Deco and Art Modernes pecialist Dutko has also opened a big new space on the Ile Saint Louis, both designed by star architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. On the roster: Pierre Chareau, Paul Dupré-Lafon, Jean-Michel Frank, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, Marino Marini.
6th
Arc en Seine
27, 31 & 33 rue de Seine, 6th
01.43.29.11.02
Opened in 1984 by Christian Boutonnet and Rafaël Ortiz and specializing in the best of Art Deco furnishings, sculpture and objets d'art by desingers including Pierre Chareau, Jean-Michel Frank, Eugène Prinz, Alexandre Noll, Gio Ponti, Alberto and Diego Giacometti.
Galerie Patrice Trigano
4 bis rue des Beaux-Arts, 6th
Métro: St-Germain-des-Prés
01.46.34.15.01
Modern and contemporary art, offering works by Botero, Derain, Hartung, César, Arman, Hundertwasser, Red Grooms and Magdelena Abakanowicz.
Darga & Lansberg Galerie
36 rue de Seine, 6th
Métro: Mabillon
01.40.51.84.34
Modern and contemporary paintings and drawings.
Galerie Downtown
18 & 38 rue de Seine, 6th
Métro: Odéon
01.46.33.82.41
François Laffanour specializes in 20th-century European and American furniture and decorative arts, including works by Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier.
Jousse Entreprise
18 rue de Seine, 6th, Métro: Odéon
and
24 & 34 rue Louise Weiss, 13th, Métro: Chevaleret
01 53 82 13 60 and 01.45.83.62.48
Philippe Jousse deals in modern and contemporary painting as well as 20th-century furnishing and decorative arts.
Kreo
31 rue Dauphine, 6th
Métro: Odéon
and
22 rue Duchefdelaville, 13th
Métro: Chevaleret
01.53.10.23.00 and 01.53.60.18.42
A leading furniture gallery dealing in design as art, with a big new Left Bank gallery addition to its original location in the avant-garde Rue Louis Weiss district.
Paul Prouté S.A.
74 rue de Seine, 6th
Métro: Mabillon
01.43.26.89.80
Founded more than 125 years ago and now run by the fourth generation of the Prouté family, this lovely Left Bank gallery offers prints and drawings from the 16th to the 20th century.
Vallois Sculptures
35 rue de Seine,6th
Métro: Odéon
01.43.25.17.34
An annex of the Vallois Art Deco gallery in the same street, this smallergallery handles contemporary sculpture by such artists as Yuri Kuper, Patrick O'Reilly, Corinne Sanmarcelli and Boris Zabarov.
Vallois Sculptures Modernes
41 rue de Seine, 6th
Métro: Mabillon
01.43.29.50.80
Part of the Robert and Cheska Vallois Art Deco gallery, the sculpture gallery handles 19th/20th-century artists including Rodin, Gauguin, Pompon, Bugatti, Laurens, Lipschitz, Zadkine and Orloff.
Yves Gastou
12 rue Bonaparte, 6th
Métro: St. Germain des Prés
01.53.73.00.10
20th-century furniture and decorative arts from the 1940s to the 1970s in a gallery designed by Ettore Sottsass, with works by Sottsass, Arad, André Arbus, Jacques Adnet, Pierre Cardin, Joe Colombo, Gabriella Crespi and Michel Boyer.
7th
Gabrielle Laroche
12 rue de Beaune, 7th,
also at
25 rue de Lille, 7th,
Métro: Rue du Bac
01.42.97.59.18 and 01.42.60.37.08
Paintings, sculpture and woodcuts from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and 17th century.
Galerie Maeght
42 rue du Bac, 7th
Métro: Rue du Bac
01.45.48.45.15
Founded in Cannes in 1936 by Aimé Maeght, dealer and friend of Braque, Matisse, Léger and Miró, the prestigious gallery is still run by the Maeght family and still handles modern and contemporary artists including Giacometti, Calder, Miró, Adami, Chillida, Van Velde and Pol Bury.
Brimo de Laroussilhe
7 quai Voltaire, 7th
Métro: Rue du Bac
01.42.60.74.76
A gallery founded in 1908, specializing in medieval and Renaissance furnishings including sculpture, paintings, tapestries and objets d’art.
Christian Liaigre
42 rue du Bac, 7th
Métro: Rue du Bac
01.47.53.78.76
Interior designer and decorator Liaigre's gallery and boutique offers his own handsome, contemporary classic furniture and decorative wares.
Edifice
27bis rue du Bac, 7th
Métro: Rue du Bac
01 45.48.53.60
High-end modern and contemporary furniture and household accessories by famous names past—includingLe Corbusier—and current designers such as Gaetao Pesce and Christian Ghion.
Galerie J. Kugel
25 quai Anatole France, 7th
Métro: Assemblée Nationale
01.42.60.86.23
Museum-quality medieval to 19th-century antiques of all kinds, from furniture and sculpture to jewelry and scientific instruments, displayed in a spectacular 19th-century Left Bank mansion run by fifth-generation dealers Nicolas and Alexis Kugel.
Galerie Liova-Marc Perpitch
240 blvd St. Germain, 7th
Métro: Rue du Bac
01.45.48.53.30
Run by second-generation dealer Marc Perpitch, specializing in fine furniture, objets d’art and decorative elements of the Haute Epoque—medieval and Renaissance, 15th-early 17th centuries.
Galerie Ratton-Ladrière
11 quai Voltaire, 7th
Métro: Rue du Bac
01.42.61.29.79
Along with museum-quality medieval, Renaissance and Baroque painting, drawings and sculpture, this Left Bank gallery carries archaeological objects and primitive arts.
India Mahdavi
3 rue Las Cases, 7th
Métro: Solférino
01.45.55.67.67
A showcase for the sophisticated furniture, lamps and accessories of star architect and designer India Mahdavi.
8th
Bernard Steinitz
9 rue du Cirque, 8th
01.42.89.40.50
Founded in 1968 by Bernard Steinitz, who now works together with his son Benjamin, one of the city’s best known galleries for top-level 17th- and 18th-century furniture and objets d’art, including exceptional carved wood paneling.
Didier Aaron
118 rue du Faubourg St-Honoré, 8th
Métro: Miromesnil
01.47.42.47.34
A gallery founded by Jeanne Aaron in 1923 and now run by third-genenration expert Hervé Aaron, one of the city’s top dealers in museum-quality 17th- to 19th-century paintings, furniture, and objets d’art.
Kraemer & Cie
43 rue de Monceau, 8th
01.45.63.31.23
In business since 1875, the oldest and one of the most prestigious of the city’s galleries specializing in top-quality 17th- and 18th-century furniture and objets d’art, shown in the family's private residence.
Brame & Lorenceau
68 blvd Malesherbes, 8th
Métro: St-Augustin
01.45.22.16.89
Created 30 yeas ago by a merger of two galleries founded in 1864, now specializing in 19th- and 20th-century paintings, drawings and sculpture, as well as modern and contemporary art, offering works by such artists as Degas, Caillebotte, Blanche, Daumier, Carolus-Duran, Fantin-Latour, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Sisley and Rodin.
Daniel Malingue
26 ave Matignon, 8th
Métro: Franklin D. Roosevelt
01.42.66.60.33
Old Masters, Impressionists, modern works and sculpture—the impressive list of artists at this gallery run by Daniel Malingue and his daughter ranges from Bonnard and Braque to Van Dongen and Vlaminck, and includes Chagall, Matisse, Klee, Picasso, Miró and Renoir.
Galerie Aveline/Jean-Marie Rossi
94 rue du Fbg St-Honoré, 8th
Métro: Miromesnil
01.42.66.60.29
One of the city's best-known dealers in exceptional 17th- to 19th-century furniture, paintings, and objets d’art, beautifully displayed in a vast gallery on the Place Beauvau.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune
83 rue du Faubourg St-Honoré, 8th
Métro: Miromesnil
01.42.66.60.31
The gallery that organized Van Gogh’s first Paris exhibit in 1901 and later presented Cézanne, Matisse and others is still run by descendants of the founder and still exhibits contemporary artists.
Galerie De Jonckheere
100 rue du Faubourg St-Honoré, 8th
Métro: Miromesnil.
01.42.66.69.49
Georges and François De Jonckheere are the top specialists in museum-quality 16th-and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish Old Master paintings. The gallery also handles 18th-century Italian vedutisti.
Galerie d’Art St-Honoré
69 rue du Faubourg St-Honoré, 8th
Métro: Miromesnil
01.42.66.36.63
Paintings from the 16th- to 18th-century Northern European School, mainly Flemish—including Brueghel, Cranach, and Jan Van Kessel.
Galerie Hopkins-Custot
2 ave Matignon, 8th
Métro: Franklin D. Roosevelt
01.42.25.32.32
Stéphane Custot and Waring Hopkins specialize in 19th- and 20th-century paintings, drawings and sculpture, including Impressionists and Nabis—Monet, Pisssarro, Sisley, Bonnard, Denis—and such modern and contemporary artists as Picasso, Matisse, Calder Magritte, Warhol and Hockney.
Galerie Jérome de Noirmont
38 ave Matignon, 8th
Métro: Miromesnil
01.42.89.89.00.
A well-known gallery specializing in international contemporary artists including Jeff Koons, Fabrice Hyber, Keith Haring, Shirin Neshat, Francesco Clemente and Pierre et Gilles.
Perrin Antiquaires
98 rue du Fbg St-Honoré, 8th
Métro: Champs-Elysées–Clemenceau
01.42.65.01.38
Founder Jacques Perrin and his son Philippe specialize in exceptional late 17th- to early 19th-century French furniture, painting, sculpture and decorative objects, displayed in a beautiful three-story mansion on the Place Beauvau.
11th
Patrick Seguin
5 rue des Taillandier, 11th
Métro: Bastille
01.47.00.32.35
Installed near the Bastille since 1989, Patrick Seguin specializes in the big design names of the mid-20th century, including Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Jean Royère and Pierre Jeanneret.
Galerie Italienne
75 rue de la Fontaine au Roi, 11th
Métro: Goncourt.
A smaller gallery is at:
46 rue de Seine, 6th
Métro: Odéon.
01.49.29.07.74. and 01.45.49.21.68
A contemporary gallery that exhibits and produces limited-edition furniture, lighting fixtures, and decorative objects and housewares by mostly Italian designers, including Mattia Bonetti, Carlo Molino, Gaetano Pesce and Ettore Sottsass.
12th
VIA
29 ave Daumesnil
Métro: Gare de Lyon
01.46.28.11.11.
A design gallery sponsored by the French furniture industry, specializing in young, up-and-coming designers.
13th
Har Design
75 quai de la Gare, 13th
Métro: Quai de la Gare
01.53.61.37.61
Contemporary furniture, light fixtures and decorative objects.