To celebrate its 35th birthday, Espace 251 Nord shares its history with a 392 pages’ volume book, opening with an extensive plates’ section of exhibition views and closing with an exhaustive chronology of the 187 exhibitions and events, produced by Espace 251 Nord under the direction of Laurent Jacob since 1983. As a preview to this upcoming publication ‘E2N Archives Active/Published’, this edition was produced as a limited edition gift at the 58th Venice Art Biennale 2019.

This third in a planned four-volume catalogue raisonné of works by the French avant-garde artist Francis Picabia (1879-1953) includes paintings and selected drawings dating from mid-1927 through 1939. Innovative collage-paintings and flamboyant figural compositions known as "monsters" that dominated Picabia's output in the mid-1920s gave way, during 1927, to new artistic directions. The most important of these was an exploration of the concept of transparency in many forms, first through the...

Le musée national de Port-Royal des Champs possède au total vingt-deux dessins de Bernard Picart (1673-1733). L'artiste a effet représenté la vie du Diacre Paris, figure essentielle du jansénisme parisien au XVIIIe siècle, dont l'ensemble des dessins préparatoires à la sanguine ont pu être acquis par Port-Royal. En 2018 une Allégorie de la Foi terrassant l'Ignorance puis quatre dessins acquis en deux temps qui preparent l'ouvrage Histoire du Vieux et Nouveau Testament (dit Bible de ...