Knowledge of arts

Connaissance of arts is a monthly magazine devoted to arts and their topicality. It is published since March 1952 by Hachette Réalités with the council of experts, merchants and auctioneers like Maurice Rheims.

Specialized on antiquity, the decoration and the objets d'art, it was about the first review of art combining basic texts and reproductions colors. It counted up to 50.000 subscribers. In 1975, the Jodidio family repurchases the review and creates the artistic French company of promotion. Philip Jodidio replaces then Francis Spar with the head of the drafting and the newspaper takes a more modern coloring by incorporating articles on architecture. Thanks to the creation of out of the ordinary in 1989, the house develops. In April 2000, the group of luxury LVMH repurchases the title. After the departure of Philip Jodidio in 2002, the drafting is reorganized under the crook of Guy Boyer. The new editorial formula allows particular angles of attack for each article (visit of workshop, private collection, analyzes style, study of a work…). It combines pointed texts with an approach plus general practitioner making it possible under propose a great diversity of subjects and writing.

Every month, Connaissance of arts keeps its readers informed of all the international topicality. Exposures, auctions, fairs and living rooms are commented on under the feather of journalists and experts.

More than 300 numbers except series covering of the fields as varied as the great exposures, the collections of the museums, the castles and the trades of art were published of which:

  • Collection Inheritance: Roman Nimes, the field of Marie-Antoinette, the Room Pleyel, the inheritance in France 2006…
  • Collection Museums: Museum and Manufacture of Sevres, Museum Picasso Malaga, Museum of decorative Arts, Museum of the quay Branly…
  • Collection Exposures: Melancholy, Titien, Cabu, Yves Klein, Maurice Denis….
  • Collection Trades of art: Lesage, Prelle, Mériguet-Carrère…
  • Book-catalogs: The Mercury ceiling, restoration of Bathroom of Louis XV (Versailles)…

Anecdote

  • the first number was published under the title Connaisseur, the monthly guide of the art lover . Undoubtedly following a complaint of the American newspaper Connoisseur , the second number published under the title Knowledge of Arts .

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