The Gallery

The Galerie Claude Lemand was founded in 1988 with an inter­na­tional open-mind on artists coming from all around the world, from dif­ferent geo­graphic, cul­tural and aes­thetic back­grounds, who chose Paris as their cap­ital of life, cre­ation and inter­na­tional flour­ishing suc­cess, whether it be tem­po­rary or per­ma­nent.

The gallery is there­fore ded­i­cated to pro­mote those artists and to orga­nize solo and group exhi­bi­tions for them. It fur­ther ensures the orig­inal edi­tion of their sculp­tures and prints and it reg­u­larly pub­lishes exhi­bi­tion cat­a­logues as well as a sev­eral impor­tant mono­graphs.

Since its estab­lish­ment, the gallery got into the habit of orga­nizing a the­matic inter­na­tional exhi­bi­tion every year, where artists rep­re­sented by the gallery come together with other artists who have an inter­na­tional rep­u­ta­tion, such as the exhi­bi­tions of ‘Masters of the tondo’, ‘Painting & Poetry. Artists of the Book’, ‘From East to West’, …

Before opening his gallery, Claude Lemand was a uni­ver­sity pro­fessor until 1988. His pas­­sion for painting, sculp­­ture and artists’ books led him to drop every­thing in June 1988, in order to focus on building up a col­lec­­tion and founding a gallery in Paris.

Espace Claude Lemand
70 avenue Jean Moulin, 75014 Paris
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Galerie & Espace

From 1989 onwards, Claude Lemand was one of the first gal­lerists to embark on pro­moting major Arab artists who had set­tled in the West, through the orga­ni­za­tion of exhi­bi­tions, the pur­chase of works, the edi­tion of bronze sculp­tures and the pub­li­ca­tion of impor­tant mono­graphs.

Claude Lemand is also a pub­lisher who has a pas­sion for poetry and orig­inal artist’s books. The inau­gu­ra­tion of his gallery took place in October 1988 in con­junc­tion with the pub­li­ca­tion of Marguerite Yourcenar’s Le dernier amour du Prince Genghi’ in a beautiful book designed and illustrated with etchings by Abdallah Benanteur, printed as a limited edition of only 33 copies. Since then, Claude Lemand has published the monographs of Benanteur as well as that of Shafic Abboud. Furthermore, he organized many exhibitions around the subject ofPainting & Poetry. Artists of the Book’, which explore the rich­ness of orig­inal manuscript and illus­trated books.

In October 2008, on the 20th anniver­sary of his gallery, Claude Lemand opened a second gallery which is a space ded­i­cated for the impor­tant works of his artists to be dis­played and to the prepa­ra­tion of ret­ro­spec­tives or major exhi­bi­tions which he orga­nizes in France or in other coun­tries.

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