Latest exhibition
Jacques Le Maréchal (1928-2016)
30 October to 28 November 2026 · 70 original works by Jacques Moreau, known as Le Maréchal: paintings, temperas, watercolours and around fifty prints, some hand-coloured or out of print.
Past exhibitions
Endre Rozsda (1913-1999)
18 September to 23 October 2026 · As a prologue to the retrospective at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper, from June to November 2027, the gallery welcomes Endre Rozsda once again.
Guylaine, in the Jungle of Innocence
26 June to 25 July 2026 · Paintings and drawings by Guylaine, on the publication of her monograph L’Ymagier de Guylaine, published by Les éditions L’Or aux 13 îles.
The Gallery’s 25th Anniversary
22 May to 19 June 2026 · On 1 June 2001 the Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles opened its doors. Twenty-five years later, it celebrates the anniversary with the artists who have built…
Valentine, En liens
24 April to 8 May 2026 · “En liens” (Bound Together), a solo exhibition by Valentine: an assemblage of 30 canvases exploring the dynamics of the couple.
Bernard Saby (1925-1975)
13 March to 18 April 2026 · The seventh exhibition devoted to Bernard Saby, with previously unseen works: a double tribute, to the artist for the centenary of his birth and to…
Christine Sefolosha and Jean-Pierre Nadau, Dreams and Vertigo & Drawings by Design
23 January to 7 March 2026 · A joint exhibition of Christine Sefolosha, Songes et vertiges (Dreams and Vertigo), and Jean-Pierre Nadau, Dessins à dessein (Drawings by Design), two singular artists in…
Josette Rispal and Chomo, a Singular Friendship
27 November 2025 to 8 January 2026 · In collaboration with Maître Aymeric Rouillac, the story of a singular friendship: from Josette Rispal’s L’Humanité to Chomo’s Bois brûlés (Burnt Woods).
Fred Deux, “Drawing, the Unknown”
18 September to 20 November 2025 · Fred Deux (1924-2015), “Le dessin, cet inconnu” (Drawing, the Unknown): inks and coloured sperms, and a reading of a unique book by Fred Deux from…
Didier Mazuru, Surrealist Fragmentations
5 June to 4 July 2025 · A double exhibition: Didier Mazuru, Fragmentations surréalistes (Surrealist Fragmentations), and a small cabinet by Mr. Djub, Charivari.
A Journey through Latin America
18 April to 31 May 2025 · A journey to the heart of Latin American art with Jorge Camacho, Joaquín Ferrer, Gerardo Chávez, Roberto Álvarez Ríos, Ramón Alejandro, Mauro Mejiaz and Jorge…
It’s Me, Ursula!
14 March to 12 April 2025 · Two singular artists: Ursula Schultze-Bluhm, discovered by Jean Dubuffet in 1954, and Yolande Fièvre, with her automatic paintings and oniroscopes.
The Subversion of Images
24 January to 8 March 2025 · Following on from our three exhibitions for the centenary of Surrealism: photographs, photomontages, collages, drawings, paintings and objects by twenty artists, from Man Ray to…
At the Sources of Convulsive Beauty, Part Three: Fabián Sánchez
6 December 2024 to 9 January 2025 · The third part, as part of “Paris Surréaliste”: the anthropomorphic machines of Fabián Sánchez (1934-2020), born of old sewing machines.
At the Sources of Convulsive Beauty, Part Two
25 October to 30 November 2024 · Part two: André Breton “the influencer”, Édouard Jaguer and the Phases movement, the permanence of the contemporary Surrealist gaze, and Jacques Carelman’s Machine à inspirer…
At the Sources of Convulsive Beauty, Part One
6 September to 19 October 2024 · For the centenary of Surrealism, a first part centred on Jacques Hérold’s Grand Transparent and Jean Benoît’s costume for the Execution of the Testament of…
Surrealist Prelude
7 June to 6 July 2024 · For the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto, some thirty artists from the Surrealist sphere, some works coming from the collections of André Breton, José Pierre…
Jorge Vigil, Beyond My Dreams & Olena Donichenko, Weaving Destinies
3 May to 1 June 2024 · A double exhibition: the drawings of Jorge Vigil, Au delà de mes rêves (Beyond My Dreams), and the works of Olena Donichenko, Tissage de destins…
Favourites: Art Brut, Naive Art, Art Singulier
15 March to 18 April 2024 · Art Brut, Naive Art, Art Singulier: A. Bauchant, P. Bettencourt, A. Boix-Vives, A. Caillaud, P. Dereux, E. Gabritschevsky, S. Kopač, E. Monsiel, L. Pons, J.…
Jorge Camacho and Joaquín Ferrer, Two Cuban Friends in Paris
26 January to 9 March 2024 · Jorge Camacho and Joaquín Ferrer, two Cuban friends who came to Paris in 1959-1960, friends of Lam and Cárdenas, who would cross paths with André…
Mr. Djub, Hôtel Moderne
7 December 2023 to 12 January 2024 · Mr. Djub’s third solo show at the gallery: fifty collages of nineteenth-century printed papers and, for the first time, his paper theatre.
Visions on Every Floor
2 November to 1 December 2023 · Artists close to the “visionary” current as defined by Michel Random: Stanislao Lepri, Alfred Courmes, Dado, Leonor Fini, Ljuba, Jacques Le Maréchal, Didier Mazuru, Mario…
Endre Rozsda in Saint-Germain, 60 Years On
5 to 28 October 2023 · Paintings and drawings by Endre Rozsda from 1939 to 1999, sixty years after his last solo exhibition at Simone Collinet’s, with a tribute to Simone Kahn…
Jacques Le Maréchal, The Imperceptible Abyss
1 June to 1 July 2023 · The rare and marvellous works of Jacques Le Maréchal, “inextricable” drawings and paintings noticed by André Breton, with the publication of a major monograph.
Christian d’Orgeix, Metamorphoses
20 April to 27 May 2023 · Pieces from the 1950s and 1960s by Christian d’Orgeix, close to Hans Bellmer and the Surrealists, at the crossroads of Lyrical Abstraction and the painting…
Didier Mazuru, The Ineffable
17 March to 15 April 2023 · Recent paintings by Didier Mazuru, who has moved from a studious, controlled approach to painting to one that is deliberately improvised and spontaneous.
Bernard Saby, The Intimacy of the World
26 January to 25 February 2023 · Some twenty exceptional, previously unseen works by Bernard Saby, the seventh exhibition of his work at the gallery in fifteen years, with two talks with…
Lou Dubois, Triscénoramas & Co
8 December 2022 to 12 January 2023 · An underrated entomologist, suffering from acute and incurable punnitis, young Lou Dubois went off to look elsewhere. Poet and artist, he opens worlds of…
Leonardo Delfino
24 November to 3 December 2022 · The furniture, sculptures and drawings of Leonardo Delfino (1928-2022), a sculptor born in Turin and based in Paris from 1959, one of the most accomplished…
Latin American Art
14 October to 19 November 2022 · A tribute to Joaquín Ferrer (1928-2022), with the “Latino” artists who were his friends and companions in creation in Cuba and in Paris: Ramón Alejandro,…
Ody Saban, Tender Assemblies of Women and Other Marvels
14 September to 8 October 2022 · Ody Saban opens a new dream door in her enchanted Surrealist universe, where forests and oceans feel themselves offered to assemblies of women. Text by…
Bernard Saby, The Immense Body of the Void
7 April to 4 June 2022 · Major, previously unseen works by Bernard Saby from every period and in every format, shown in two successive parts, in April and then in May,…
The Hold of the Senses, Erotic Variations
11 February to 19 March 2022 · A panorama of eroticism in the work of the gallery’s contemporary and historical artists from Surrealism and the singular arts, from Hans Bellmer to Pierre…
Mr. Djub’s Grande Java
2 December 2021 to 5 February 2022 · “I made my first collage in 1983. I was 14, I was a punk, I made fanzines.” Collages by Mr. Djub, made solely from…
Christine Sefolosha, Nocturnal Odyssey
22 October to 27 November 2021 · Ghost ships and wandering, wrecked and sunken vessels haunt our imagination. Drawings, monotypes and inks by Christine Sefolosha, introduced by Charles-Arthur Boyer.
Bernard Schultze, Pioneer of Informel Abstraction
10 September to 16 October 2021 · Pioneer of Informel abstraction.
El Fuego, Sculptures by Virginia Tentindo
19 June to 23 July 2021 · Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e. I first met Virginia Tentindo in 1997, when I joined the editorial board of the…
Jorge Camacho
Trapdoors, cellar vents, cat flaps
Singular Territories
3 December 2020 to 30 January 2021 · Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e. Delighted to welcome you back to discover “matter transfigured” in our new exhibition, SINGULAR…
Art Brut, Madly!
This exhibition covers more than a hundred and twenty years of Art Brut creation. It presents a broad body of historical asylum and mediumistic works, as well as “contemporary” works.
Joaquín Ferrer, Six Decades of Creation
An overview of Joaquín Ferrer’s painting from 1960 to 2010. Echoing the very fine retrospective at the Maison de l’Amérique latine in Paris in 2017. Every period and every format of this…
James Metcalf (1925-2012)
James “Jimmy” Metcalf (11 March 1925 – January 2012) was an American sculptor, artist and teacher. From the 1970s until his death in 2012, Metcalf founded and ran a community of copper…
Explorations
24 January to 29 February 2020 · Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e. Artists shown: P. BETTENCOURT · DADO · ERRO · LJUBA · H. MICHAUX · J.…
Lou Dubois, Muttatis Muttandis
28 November 2019 to 11 January 2020 · Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e. In 1917, America had just entered the war against Germany. A noble and most…
Fred Deux
Mainly works from the 1960s and 1970s, but also a selection of important drawings from the 1980s and 1990s. A rare exhibition bringing together more than 40 drawings.
Lost Worlds, Collages in the Form of Stories by Mr. Djub
20 September to 12 October 2019 · Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e. MR. DJUB. “I made my first collage in 1983. I was 14, I was a…
Surrealism, the Third Season 1945-1966
24 May to 30 June 2019 · Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e. Artists shown: Maurice Baskine. Guido Biasi. Jorge Camacho. Adrien Dax. Gabriel Der Kevorkian. Jacques Lacomblez.…
Jean-Pierre Vielfaure 1930-2015
18 April to 18 May 2019 · Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e. His father, a bookseller, stationer and printer, and his mother, a musician, passed on to…
Drawings Now, Hand in Hand
Artists shown: Guy Harloff Jorge Vigil
Stanislao Lepri, Premonitory Visions
Stanislao Lepri, born in Rome in 1905, came from an aristocratic family that had sworn loyalty to the Pope. Following family tradition he embarked on a diplomatic career, which he gave up…
Josette Rispal
An overview of Josette Rispal’s work since 1972, marking the publication of the book Constellation Rispal by éditions Area Paris
Women’s Stories
11 ARTISTS, 11 AUTHORS, 11 WOMEN from the worlds of Art Brut and Art Singulier Thérèse Bonnelalbay, Yolande Fièvre, Madge Gill, Isabelle Jarousse, Rosemarie Koczy, Marina Pelosi, Josette Rispal, Ody Saban, Christine…
Sylvain Larriere, Murmurs in the Shadow Theatre
18 May to 7 July 2018 · Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e. The sound of crystals. When you lift the compact lid of one of Sylvain’s boxes,…
Rozsda, Reunion
13 April to 12 May 2018 · Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e. Endre Rozsda (Mohács, Hungary 1913 – Paris 1999) created a personal and secret body of…
Bernard Saby, Ink Washes
9 March to 7 April 2018 · Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e. FROM THE WORLD OF SPEEDS AND SLOWNESSES TO THE KNOTS OF VERTIGO. “One day a…
Jacques Hérold
A major exhibition of the painting of Jacques Hérold (1910-1987), covering the 1930s to the 1960s, together with rare sculptures. You can consult the exhibition journal by clicking on the Catalogue.
Lou Dubois, An Ambigu of Ambimages and Other Correspondences
2 December 2017 to 13 January 2018 · Ambigu d’ambimages et autres correspondances, by Lou Dubois.
Drawing, Abstraction and Surrealism: Fred Deux, Bernard Saby, Joaquín Ferrer
With Jorge Camacho Fred Deux Joaquín Ferrer Bernard Saby
Pierre Bettencourt
12 May to 1 July 2017 · Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e. After secondary school in Le Havre and Savoie, Pierre Bettencourt attended Paul Valéry’s course in…
A Look at Latin American Painting
16 March to 29 April 2017 · Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e. Artists shown: Roberto Alvarez-Rios. Jorge Camacho. Gerardo Chávez. Joaquín Ferrer. Iván Tovar. Jorge Vigil.
Icons Opus II, Arnaud d’Aunay
1 December 2016 to 15 January 2017 · Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e. A travelling painter from a family rooted in the Nivernais and Paris, Arnaud d’Aunay…
The Impossible Objects of Jacques Carelman
The gallery presents a selection of the original drawings behind the famous Catalogue des Objets introuvables, published in 1969 and translated into 19 languages, from which the objects themselves derive, made for…
A Journey into the Imagination
21 January to 12 April 2016 · Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e. WITH · Lucien COUTAUD · Guy HARLOFF · Stanislao LEPRI · Didier MAZURU · Jules…
Patrice Cadiou, Talismanic Nights
1 June to 1 July 2012 · Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e. Solo exhibitions: 2012 Talismanic Nights, Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, Paris, France · 2007 Galerie Joëlle…