Galerie La Forest Divonne
Guy de Malherbe
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"Autres Rivages"
Guy de Malherbe, Falaises, huile sur toile, 114x146xm, 2025 © Bertrand Hugues Michaud
The exhibition “Autres Rivages” (Other Shores)”, by Guy de Malherbe, brings together around thirty recent canvases by the artist, ranging from small paintings created directly from observation to large monumental formats, most of them inspired by the shorelines that Guy de Malherbe tirelessly explores.
The cliffs of the Pays de Caux, from Étretat to Varengeville-sur-Mer, are one of the essential sources of inspiration for his paintings. Guy de Malherbe stays there regularly to immerse himself in the powerful spectacle of the sea crashing against imposing walls of white chalk.
The shoreline—where this relentless clash of the elements constantly unfolds—is a privileged place for an awareness of nature and the issues that concern it, one that gives a sense of time and space and brings us back to an awareness of finitude.
The exhibition invites visitors to travel along these shores of Guy de Malherbe and to share the world revealed through his painting, where the emotion of color and material intertwines with the unconscious and with dreams.
“In the power of color, but also in the monumental presence of the rocks, in the frontal gaze confronting maritime environments, and in the vitality of the brushwork and chromatic choices made by Malherbe, one can read the legacy of a great artistic tradition—beyond nineteenth-century models—as well as his taste for the modernity of artists from the last fifty years.”
– Cyrille Sciama (Curator of the Musée des Impressionnismes in **Giverny)
Solo show of Guy de Malherbe
From April 16 to June 6, 2026
Rendez-Vous
Sunday 31 May 2026 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Meeting – Galerie La Forest Divonne
75006 Paris, France 01 40 29 97 52 www.galerielaforestdivonne.com/fr/accueil
The gallery
Galerie La Forest Divonne has two locations: one in Paris, since 1988, in iconic Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and another one in Brussels since 2016, under the glass-ceiling of a national heritage Art Nouveau Building, and since 2025 with a new location on the prestigious Avenue Louise. With some twenty-five artists aged 30 to 90 years old, the gallery covers all expressions of the visual arts, from installations to drawing. The program spans from figures of the French scene of the 1960’s and 1970’s, such as Lucien Hervé in photography or Vincent Bioulès, Patrice Giorda in painting, to mid-career and emerging international artists in all practices, like the Elsa & Johanna duo, American painter Jeff Kowatch, sculptor Jean-Bernard Métais, or flemish artist Tinka Pittoors or recently Krjst studio. Trough both Paris and Brussels, La Forest Divonne organizes a dozen gallery exhibitions and participates in six to ten art fairs each year, including, Expo Chicago, Paris Photo, Art Paris, Art Brussels, BRAFA and the Paris Biennale. The gallery collaborates with a number of museums and institutions across Europe in which its artists are regularly shown or acquired (Centre Pompidou, Karlsruhe and Hamburg Museum, Royal Museums of Belgium, FMAC, CNAP, FNAC, MEP, Chateaux de Chaumont et de Chambord, National Museum of Hungary, Kunsthaus Zurich, Geneva... and many others). Marie Hélène de La Forest Divonne, founder and CEO of the gallery, is on the board of CPGA, the French National Association of Galleries and also a member of the Belgian association of Galleries (BUP). In 2014, the President of Centre Pompidou decorated her with the prestigious National medal « des Arts et des Lettres » for her achievements in Contemporary Art.
Gallery artists
Arthur Aillaud, Vincent Bioulès, Jérôme Bryon, Jean-Marie Bytebier, Caribaï, Bernadette Chéné, Valérie Delarue, Elsa & Johanna, François Cante-Pacos, Patrice Giorda, Alexandre Hollan, Jeff Kowatch, Rachel Labastie, Ofer Lellouche, Guy de Malherbe, Jean-Bernard Métais, Valérie Novello, Tinka Pittoors, Illés Sarkantyu
