LEADING LADY: The quintessential Parisian, actress Catherine Deneuve is ready to be celebrated in a dual exhibition on either side of the Seine. The “Catherine Deneuve, Rive Droite, Rive Gauche exhibition,” on the Galerie de l’Quick within the third arrondissement and at the enduring Hôtel Lutetia on the Left Bank, features pictures of the actress through the a long time by an array of photographers, from her ex-husband, David Bailey, to Kate Barry, Helmut Newton and Ellen von Unwerth, in addition to veteran Paris Match photographer Jean-Claude Deutsch.

Julia Gragnon, director of the Galerie de l’Quick, remembers listening to Deneuve’s voice as a toddler on recordings of Disney stories on vinyl, then discovering her, years later, alongside Bowie and Susan Sarandon in Tony Scott’s cult movie “The Hunger.”

“All of us have a selected relationship with Catherine Deneuve. Her unique expression, her blondeness, the fantasies and other projections she inspires…her relationship with artists, with fashion, her friendship with Yves Saint-Laurent,” said Gragnon, who has been collecting imagery for a while with a view to putting it on show. Pictures by her father, photographer François Gragnon, also feature in the choice.

A lot of the photographs are behind-the-scenes shots of the actress on set, often together with her signature cigarette in hand, and show her alone or with fellow screen icons including David Bowie and Serge Gainsbourg. Others show her in a few of her key cinematic roles over time, like in Luis Bunuel’s “Tristana” in a shot by Philippe Le Tellier. There are signed originals, reproductions and vintage prints amongst the choice, spread between the 2 venues.

A household name the world over who is understood for being enigmatic off-screen, Deneuve, who will turn 80 in October, is having something of a moment. She notably featured on the poster for this 12 months’s Cannes Film Festival in a shot from 1968 movie “La Chamade.”

The exhibition opens on Wednesday on the Lutetia, where pictures will likely be on show until Sept. 8, and on Thursday on the Galerie de l’Quick within the Marais, where they’ll remain on view until Oct. 1.