Galerie Louis Carré et Cie

The gallery opened in 1938 by Louis Carré is still operating at the same address: 10, avenue de Messine in Paris 8e. After exhibiting the great creators of modern art: Gris, Klee, Matisse, Calder, Léger, Robert Delaunay

Delaunay, Kupka and Picasso, Louis Carré defended the works of Jean Bazaine, Maurice Estève, Charles Lapicque and Jacques Villon. From 1978, under the direction of Patrick Bongers, his grandson, Geer van Velde, Étienne Hajdu, Serge Poliakoff, Gaston Chaissac, Pol Bury, Olivier Debré joined the artists defended by the gallery.

During the following decade, the gallery’s activity took on a more contemporary orientation by exhibiting Eduardo Arroyo, BP, Mark Brusse, Henri Cueco, Hervé Di Rosa, Erró, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Hervé Télémaque, François Boisrond. In 2005, it opened its galleries to artists living and working abroad, such as Kcho, a young Cuban artist living in Havana, or Thomas Huber, a Swiss artist living and working in Germany, and in 2012, to the American artist Elizabeth Patterson, who lives and works in California.