M.A.K. Galerie, meeting place of the Utrillo-Valadon Committee
A family business established in the "Golden Triangle" since the 1950s, the gallery moved to Avenue Matignon in 2010. At the time, it was known as "Espace Marc-Arthur Kohn". In 2023, Valérie Kohn took overas president and renamed the gallery "M.A.K. Galerie". Valérie and Marc-Arthur Kohn are also members of the Comité Utrillo-Valadon. The Committee holds its appraisal meetings for works by Maurice Utrillo and Suzanne Valadon at the gallery, 24 avenue Matignon.
Valérie Kohn and her team follow in the footsteps of the great modern and contemporary art dealers. For example, they staged a highly acclaimed Christo exhibition to coincide with the packaging of the Arc de Triomphe in 2021. More recently, they have showcased paintings by Achille Laugé, Edgar Degas, Auguste Herbin, Jean Hélion... to name but a few artists recently honored by Parisian or international museums.
An exhibition by Paul Delvaux (1897-1994)
As we return to the Surrealist theme, to mark the centenary of the publication of the first manifesto in 1924, M.A.K. Galerie takes us on a (re)discovery of Paul Delvaux, compatriot and contemporary of René Magritte.
The man whose poetic candor has been praised reveals himself to be even more audacious here. His large watercolors, such as "Les Femmes tumultueuses" and "Alésia ou Les Captives", seem to have been inspired by the Marquis de Sade's literature, revered by André Breton and the other tenors of Surrealism.
In the lithographs of the 70s, entitled "La Lanterne" or "Palmiers", the artist retained a taste for the anecdotal. We recall the plastic gloves with which Giorgio de Chirico glazed his canvases, as well as the titles Magritte gave his paintings. With Paul Delvaux, too, the text re-reads the image.
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Dates and Opening Time
From October 28, 2024 to November 24, 2024
Location
M.A.K. Gallery
24 Avenue Matignon
75008 Paris 8
Prices
Free
Official website
www.makgalerie.com
Instagram page
@m.a.k_galerie
