Christie’s Paris Invites French Artist Stéphane Thidet to Take Over its Façade
Christie’s Paris has invited French artist Stéphane Thidet to take over the façade of its Parisian headquarters with a unique installation, which will be adorning the venue on 9 Avenue Matignon, from October 13th, 2025, to January 11th, 2026. Following its collaboration with Felice Varini in 2024, this project illustrates Christie’s longstanding commitment to supporting contemporary art and inscribes itself in the programme of Paris Art Week. With this new in situ intervention, Thidet delivers a poetic and enigmatic visual work opposite the Grand Palais, in this building designed by René Sergent in 1914. Represented by the Aline Vidal gallery, Stéphane Thidet is renowned on the French and international art scene for his installations inspired by nature and the imagination. Curator Farhad Kazemi describes his works as “powerful works that require no explanation. They speak directly to the senses and the imagination, yet always carry a strong message”
On the same day, Christie’s announced that Yves Klein’s California (IKB 71), the artist’s largest monochrome in private hands, would be auctioned on October 23rd. This monumental work, dating from 1961 and embodying International Klein Blue, will be the highlight of the ‘Avant-Garde(s) including Thinking Italian’ sale during Paris Art Week. Issued from a prestigious American private collection, the artwork has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is being offered at auction for the first time.
To celebrate this pivotal moment in Art Week, Christie’s Paris welcomed friends, journalists, and collectors to the inaugural evening, where we met Mikael Kraemer, Paul Nyzam, Elodie Morel-Bazin, Benoit Bazin, Priscille d’Orgeval, Anne Berest, and Serge Carreira, among others.
Photo: Pierre Perusseau
