His family comes from Bessarabia. His father, Antoine Sapiro, had an art gallery in Paris between 1963 and 1977. The Le Minotaure Gallery, created in 2002, is located on Rue des Beaux-Arts, at the former address oft h e famous bookstore from which it kept its name. Its founder, Benoit Sapiro, has been fascinated by artists from Russia and Central Europe since the first half of the 20th century. Benoit Sapiro has been dedicated to helping rediscover the first half of artists in Central and Russian Europe in the twentieth century, for more than twenty years, with a constant and passionate action. He was marked by the evolution of events during the pogroms and the two World Wars, the Russian Revolution, etc. So he decided to focus on the avant-garde, especially in Paris and Berlin, where artists transited or took refuge: especially the Abstraction-Création collective i n Paris and the expressionist, futurist and constructivist artists of the Der Sturm Ga-l lery, founded in Berlin by Herwarth Walden. He has a niche in the exhibition o f works in his gallery - the Kultur Lige movement, a secular Jewish socialist organiza- tion, appeared in 1917, whose goal was to emancipate Jews through the avant-garde, theater, magazines and children's books in Yiddish. His fundraiser sBior Aronson Marc Chagall, Issachar Ber Ryback and El Lissitzky, before becoming constructivists, produced illustrations for these avant-garde books.