At the start of the new school year, the HELENE BAILLY MARCILHAC Gallery is dedicating an exhibition to the Nabis—the painters who, at the end of the 19th century, chose no longer to depict the world but to express it.

Formed at the Académie Julian and inspired by Gauguin, they came together under a name borrowed from Hebrew—Nabis, meaning “the prophets”—driven by a conviction: another kind of painting was possible.

Far from imitation, they placed color, rhythm, and composition at the heart of the painting, transforming even the humblest everyday scenes into the setting for a silent revolution. From the bedroom to the garden, from domestic scenes to inner reverie, the NABIS exhibition brings together a collection of rare works in which the medium and the motif become the true subject. A journey into the art of almost nothing, where the familiar becomes a revelation.

An exhibition featuring works by Albert André, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Paul Gauguin, Georges Lemmen, Paul Sérusier, Félix Vallotton, and Édouard Vuillard.