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Phillips Paris: public exhibition at Galerie Aveline

Until Oct 21

Galerie Aveline (Phillips Paris) · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

Phillips' Art Basel Paris week exhibition of its Paris Modern & Contemporary Art and Design sale, headlined by works from the Collection of Marcel Brient, with a selection of Private Sales works and highlights from the upcoming New York Modern & Contemporary Art and Design auctions and Geneva Watches and Jewels sales.

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Artcurial: Earth & Fire: Ceramics - public exhibition

Until Oct 22

Artcurial · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

Free public viewing of Artcurial's first auction devoted entirely to ceramics, curated by Jean-Marc Dimanche, with works by Carolein Smit, Kim Simonsson, Elmar Trenkwalder and Betty Woodman alongside Jacques Blin, Georges Jouve and Pol Chambost.

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Sotheby's Paris: public exhibition of Le Temps retrouvé - The Schlumberger Collection

Until Oct 22

Sotheby's Paris · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

Free pre-sale exhibition at Sotheby's Paris flagship of the Schlumberger Collection, assembled by Jeanne Schlumberger and unseen in public for decades, led by Claude Monet's late Iris (1924-25, est. EUR 22-30m) alongside works by Monet, Cézanne, Moreau, Courbet, Bonnard, Soutine and Camille Claudel.

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Christie's Paris: public viewing of the 20th/21st Century Art sales

Until Oct 23

Christie's Paris · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

Free public exhibition of the lots offered in Christie's Paris autumn sales of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art, including Generations of Vision: The Durand-Ruel Collection and the 20th/21st Century: Paris Evening Sale including Thinking Italian (25th anniversary). Works on view include Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Pissarro, Caillebotte, Dubuffet, Fontana and Soulages.

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Artcurial: Collection Louis Grandchamp des Raux - La Modernité en partage, public exhibition

Until Oct 24

Artcurial · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

Free pre-sale exhibition of about 75 works by 44 artists from the collection of Louis Grandchamp des Raux, tracing French and Belgian painting from Impressionism, Symbolism, the Nabis and Pont-Aven to Bonnard.

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Artcurial: Selected 20/21 - public exhibition

Until Oct 24

Artcurial · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

Free pre-sale viewing of Artcurial's modern, post-war and contemporary art sale (about 50 works, 'From Gauguin to Basquiat'), including Gauguin's Breton et Bretonne au Pouldu (1889), Redon's La barque rouge, a Caillebotte pastel, a Basquiat work on paper, A.R. Penck's Standart-West KR 9 and 18 lots from the estate of Kees van Dongen.

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Giorgio Morandi. Un lieu de l’infini

Until Oct 24

Galleria di Arte Maggiore g.a.m. · Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Guided tour of the group show 'Giorgio Morandi. Un lieu de l’infini' at Galleria di Arte Maggiore g.a.m.. Part of the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d'Art's 'Une Semaine en Galerie' gallery week (17-24 Oct 2026); free entry. Daily 11:00–19:00.

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Richard Aldrich: L'Orange

Until Oct 24

Galerie Modern Art · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

Guided tour of the solo show of Richard Aldrich at Galerie Modern Art. Part of the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d'Art's 'Une Semaine en Galerie' gallery week (17-24 Oct 2026); free entry. Daily 10:00–18:00.

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Avenue Winston-Churchill sculptures – Art Basel Paris Public Program

Opens Tue, Oct 20 · until Oct 25

Avenue Winston-Churchill (between Petit Palais and Grand Palais) · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

Eight large-scale outdoor works line the avenue between the Petit Palais and the Grand Palais: Marcello Maloberti's neon CIEL suspended about 20 m up (Raffaella Cortese), Yinka Shonibare's Abstract Bronze VIII and Alicja Kwade's L'Élévation des Mondes (both Mennour), Simone Fattal's Door, Niki de Saint Phalle's Cat Head Totem (Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois), Manfred Pernice's bank-group benches (Anton Kern, Neu), Carmen Herrera's Angulo Amarillo (Lisson) and Keita Miyazaki's A Symbiotic Form (Rosenfeld). Free.

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Boz Deseo Garden – Celia, or the Misfortunes of Virtue

Opens Tue, Oct 20 · until Oct 25

Jardin de la Nouvelle-France · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

A pair of tall, narrow steel sculptures by Boz Deseo Garden, modelled on a lightning rod that washed ashore from the Bristol Channel, once a major route of the transatlantic slave trade, installed along a path of the Jardin de la Nouvelle-France. Presented by Petrine; free.

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Earthly Paradise: Nature Reimagined – UBS Art Collection (UBS Salon)

Opens Fri, Oct 23 · until Oct 25

Grand Palais – UBS Salon (Art Basel Paris) · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

Presentation of works from the UBS Art Collection exploring the relationship between art and the natural world, with artists including Etel Adnan, Raqib Shaw, Ishita Chakraborty, Hayal Pozanti, Nicolas Party, Sol Calero, Andi Fischer, Marguerite Humeau, Jennifer Guidi and Julian Charrière. For the first time UBS opens its Salon inside the fair to the public, Friday to Sunday.

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Lionel Sabatté – Champs d'Oiseaux

Opens Tue, Oct 20 · until Oct 25

Square Jean Perrin · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

A flock of bronze birds perched on tall columns by Lionel Sabatté, a 2025 Prix Marcel Duchamp finalist, installed in the Square Jean Perrin next to the Grand Palais. Presented by Ceysson & Bénétière; free.

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Maison Ruinart x Tadashi Kawamata – Conversations with Nature at Art Basel Paris

Opens Wed, Oct 21 · until Oct 25

Grand Palais – Maison Ruinart space (Art Basel Paris) · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

Art Basel Paris's Official Champagne Provider Maison Ruinart hosts a bar inside the fair and unveils a monumental work by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata, known for in-situ installations built from wood and furniture, as part of its 2026 'Conversations with Nature' carte blanche.

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Robert Indiana – LOVE Wall

Opens Tue, Oct 20 · until Oct 25

Place Clemenceau · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

Robert Indiana's monumental Cor-Ten steel sculpture LOVE Wall (1966–2006), four stacked LOVE forms arranged so their O's meet in the centre, presented by Almine Rech at Place Clemenceau, between the Champs-Élysées and Avenue Winston Churchill. Free.

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Tracey Emin – I lay here for you, I Followed You to the End, I Will Not Be Alone

Until Nov 1

Parvis des Droits de l'Homme (Palais de Chaillot) · Trocadéro

Three monumental bronze sculptures by Tracey Emin – I lay here for you (2018), I Followed You to the End (2024) and I Will Not Be Alone (2025) – installed on the Parvis des Droits de l'Homme at the Trocadéro by Art Basel Paris, White Cube and the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine. The figures move from prone to kneeling to seated, exploring the female body, vulnerability and resilience. Free, outdoors.

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Christine Sun Kim: Forever Behind Now / L'esprit de l'escalier (Festival d'Automne)

Until Dec 21

Gare RER Auber & Galeries Lafayette Haussmann rooftop · Opéra / Grands Boulevards

Free public-space exhibition by American artist Christine Sun Kim for the Festival d'Automne: large-scale new works drawing on musical notation and graphic information systems, shown in the corridors of Auber RER station (L'esprit de l'escalier) and on the rooftop of Galeries Lafayette Haussmann (Forever Behind Now).