Sonia Steinsapir (1912-1980), born in Russia during the Tsarist era, lived in Crimea, Berlin, and Moscow before emigrating to Paris in 1936. She became a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and set her sights on a career as an artist. A victim of anti-Semitism during the Occupation, she was deported to the camps at Mérignac and Poitiers, where she met internees known as Nomads, Manouches, Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers, and produced one of the rare graphic accounts of anti-Gypsy persecution in France during the Second World War.

This book is the first monograph devoted to the artist duo The Bells Angels, consisting of Julien Sirjacq and Simon Bernheim.


Photos, paintings, engravings, but also magazine design and graphic design for major institutions—the monograph presents all of their work, particularly powerful creations that are part of a post-punk musical and artistic culture.

Les Éditions des Beaux-Arts de Paris has published Les Caprices de la pensée, in which artist and former president of ADAGP Christian Jaccard reveals more than 50 years of artistic experimentation.

In this book, Christian Jaccard presents long and powerful excerpts from his unpublished diary, which he began in 1968. As Nicolas Bourriaud recalls in his preface: "Since his early days, Christian Jaccard has been engaged in what he describes as intelligible experimentation. Through his exploration of combustion phenomena.

Born in 1956, Welsh artist James Rielly was head of studio at Beaux-Arts de Paris from 2005 to 2024. This comprehensive monograph, prefaced by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and introduced by a text by Anaël Pigeat, chronologically retraces his career as an artist and reveals the true work of a colorist with a subtle, ethereal chromatic palette. 

The first book in a collection that celebrates the skills taught at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Manuel de la Forge invites you to immerse yourself in the fascinating world of ancestral art. Designed as a practical and artistic guide, it offers a gradual introduction to the technique of forging, combining precision and creativity.

Pierre Alferi, writer, poet, philosopher and professor of literature at the Beaux-Arts de Paris from 2015 to 2023, drew in correspondence with his writings.


This catalog brings together a selection of his drawings, exhibited for the first time by co-curators Kathy Alliou and Paul Sztulman in the Cabinet des dessins et des estampes.

This monograph is dedicated to photographer and video artist Marie José Burki, studio head at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. It presents major works from her major series, accompanied by exhibition views.

In a world saturated with images and information, Marie José Burki's films, photographs, installations and performances reveal the media strategies to which we are constantly exposed, in order to reconnect ourselves with the living.

Introduction with a critical text by Laurent Busine.

For over two hundred years, the Beaux-Arts de Paris site has devoted a vast complex of buildings - some dating back to the seventeenth century - to the teaching of art and architecture: a place of creation and freedom without equal in the world.

In this book, Anne Debarre and Maxime Decommer, teachers and researchers at the ‘Architecture, Culture, Society’ laboratory at the École d'architecture Paris-Malaquais, bring together the architectural and educational dimensions of this exceptional site, exploring the evolution of the buildings and their uses.

From Ingres to Delacroix, Rodin to Matisse, Xu Beihong to Belkahia, Gina Pane to Anne Poirier, the Souvenirs de Jeunesse book recounts in text and images the beginnings of young artists at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. An introduction to the Beaux-Arts de Paris, covering two centuries of art history and more than 150 artists.

Edited by Alice Thomine-Berrada.


Format: 220 x 280 mm
Number of pages: 364
ISBN : 9782840568742
Price incl. VAT: €39

Beaux-Arts de Paris publishes exhibition catalogues, illustrated books and guides on its history and collections. These publications reflect the school's exhibition and studio activity and offer a reflection on the history of art, aesthetics and modern and contemporary art. They include:

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