About us

The endowment fund’s "L'Imprimerie d'Art de Montparnasse" created in 2011 aims :

  • Preserve the lithographic print shop and its unique industrial heritage.
  • Save and restore historic printing equipment for use by contemporary artists.
  • Protect, conserve and manage the print shop’s archives and lithographic stones for viewing by the public.
  • Provide support for training and apprenticeships to ensure that the master printers’ singular expertise is not lost.
  • Fund residencies to attract aspiring young artists to the workshop.

Our team

Honorary patron

David Lynch

Strategy & development

  • Patrice Forest & Virginie Seghers — joint project leaders
  • Thierry Lombard, Fondation Domaine de Villette & Ivan Massonnat, Founder of Belargus — key backers

Endowment fund

  • Patrice Forest, Art publisher — President
  • Ivan Massonnat, Founder of Belargus — Vice-President
  • Virginie Seghers, Founder of Prophil — Vice-President
  • Pierre-Alexis Dumas, Artistic Director of Hermès —  co-founder
  • Jean-Michel Alberola, Painter— co-founder
  • Christophe Billard, Friends of Idem Chairman

Scientific committee

  • Laurent Le Bon, Cultural heritage curator, President of Centre Pompidou, Paris

  • Rainer Michael Mason, art historian and curator, print specialist, Geneva

  • Alfred Pacquement, Honorary cultural heritage curator,  Director of  the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris from 2000 to 2013.

  • Robert Storr, Writer, artist and critic. Senior curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA in New York from 1990 to 2002.