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Biography

After graduating from Paris VII in literary translation from English to French,
Manuel Benguigui began translating professionally while working in an art gallery.
He now has over 20 years’ experience in the art market.

He spent 15 years at Galerie Meyer – Oceanic and Arctic Art (Paris, France) with which he participated in the most important Art Fairs (TEFAF Maastricht, Frieze Masters, Paris Biennale) before founding MB Art Research to help 

art market players complete the history and provenance of their artworks.

He is also a writer and translator.

Publications

Novels:

  • Port Franc, Mercure de France, Paris, 2021
  • Un Bon Rabbin, Mercure de France, Paris, 2019 (Prize of the City of Tours for Best Novel)
  • Un Tableau Neigeux, Mercure de France, Paris, 2018
  • Un Collectionneur Allemand, Mercure de France, Paris, 2017 ((Final List of the Goncourt Prize for First Novel)

Selection of Translations:

  • Catalogues for the FITE (International Festival of Extra-Ordinary Textiles)
  • Maroc, Couleur Désert, exhibition catalogue for the Bargoin Museum, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2014 
  • Traces de Rêves, exhibition catalogue for the MEG (Museum of Ethnography of Geneva), Switzerland, 2010
  • The Invention of Paradise, 1845-1870, Miot Photographs in the Pacific, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany, 2008
  • L’Art Ancestral des Marquises, exhibition catalogue for the Museum of Fine Arts of Chartres, France, 2008
  • Pour une Anthropologie de la Consommation, Mary Douglas & Baron Isherwood, IFM, Paris, 2008
  • Dormir avec les Ancêtres, exhibition catalogue for Galerie Meyer – Oceanic & Eskimo Art, Paris, France, 2004
  • L’Art Primitif, by Franz Boas, Editions Adam Biro, Paris, 2003
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