Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Gagosian ar Art Basel Paris,

Gagosian is participating in Art Basel Paris, at the Grand Palais, with a display of exceptional historic paintings, sculptures, and photographs extending into the gallery’s nearby location at 4 rue de Ponthieu. The twofold presentation showcases works by defining figures of modern and contemporary abstraction and representational art, in dialogue with new works by gallery artists.

Participating artists include Georg Baselitz, Amoako Boafo, Louise Bonnet, Christo, John Currin, Julie Curtiss, Willem de Kooning, Edmund de Waal, Roe Ethridge, Jadé Fadojutimi, Urs Fischer, Lucio Fontana, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Gehry, Alberto Giacometti, Nan Goldin, Mark Grotjahn, Simon Hantaï, Romuald Hazoumè, Damien Hirst, Carsten Höller, Donald Judd, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Y.Z. Kami, Yves Klein, Deana Lawson, Roy Lichtenstein, Peter Lindbergh, Man Ray, Brice Marden, Helen Marden, Joan Miró, Joan Mitchell, Takashi Murakami, Oscar Murillo, Bruce Nauman, Albert Oehlen, Giuseppe Penone, Pablo Picasso, Rudolf Polanszky, Jackson Pollock, Richard Prince, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Gerhard Richter, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Setsuko, Rudolf Stingel, Sarah Sze, Tatiana Trouvé, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Stanley Whitney, Jonas Wood, and Richard Wright.

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Fair Highlights
Bright blue paint on burnt cardboard

Yves Klein

Untitled Fire Color Painting (FC 28), 1962

Dry pigment and synthetic resin on burnt cardboard, mounted on wood

36 ¼ × 28 ¾ inches (92 × 73 cm)




Canvas that has been folded in the four corners and the center, then covered with green and blue paint, then uncovered to reveal a pattern.

Simon Hantaï

Meun, 1968

Oil on canvas

47 ½ × 41 ⅜ inches (120.5 × 105 cm)



The function of color is essentially linked to light, not to matter.

—Simon Hantaï
Abstract painted figure of a bird alongside a green crescent moon

Joan Miró

Oiseau, 1950

Oil, gouache, ink, pastel, and charcoal on cardboard

23 ⅞ × 17 ⅜ inches (60.6 × 44.1 cm)




Painting depicting two tall ceramic pots with orchids on a leaf-patterned countertop next to a bowl of oranges, bananas, and pears

Jonas Wood

2 Picasso Pots with Fruit, 2024

Oil and acrylic on canvas

32 × 30 inches (81.3 × 76.2 cm)



Painting depicting two tall ceramic pots with orchids on a leaf-patterned countertop next to a bowl of oranges, bananas, and pears

Jonas Wood, 2 Picasso Pots with Fruit, 2024 (detail)

Abstracted figure of a naked woman on a green and blue background

Pablo Picasso

Femme nue sur fond bleu, 1949

Oil on canvas

51 ¼ × 38 ¼ inches (130 × 97 cm)




Abstract oil-on-canvas painting withmuted shades of blue, pink, and brown oils on a light beige ground

Helen Frankenthaler

Shatter, 1953

Oil on unsized, unprimed canvas

48 ½ × 54 inches (123.2 × 137.2 cm)



The only rule is that there are no rules. Anything is possible. . . . It’s all about risks, deliberate risks.

—Helen Frankenthaler
Profile photograph of Cindy Sherman with her hand alongside her face and wearing a wig of short red hair and a black jacket and tie

Richard Prince

Portrait of Cindy Sherman, 1980

Ektacolor photograph

Framed: 19 × 22 ⅞ × ⅞ inches (48.3 × 58 × 2 cm)




Painting of a child’s bedroom window looking out to a blue sky, featuring drawn curtains and a window seat and ledge covered in toys and stuffed animals

Jamian Juliano-Villani

Julianna, 2024

Oil on canvas

91 ⅝ × 104 inches (232.7 × 264.2 cm)



Jamian Juliano-Villani, Julianna, 2024 (detail)

Shaped canvas in black in white with elegantly slender fingers, perfectly manicured, glossily polished nails bring a smoldering cigarette to a pair of sensuously parted lips. Tendrils of smoke veil a large portion of the mouth, with wisps undulating around the feminine lips like a caress.

Tom Wesselmann

Smoker #20, 1975

Oil on canvas
71 ½ × 67 inches (181.6 × 170.2 cm)




Photograph comprising grid of two nude sculptures and two nude women, all laying down and shot from above

Nan Goldin

Marble Quartet, 2013 (printed 2024)

Archival pigment print, in frame

48 ¼ × 60 ¼ × 2 ¼ inches (122.4 × 152.9 × 5.7 cm)

AP 1/2 + edition of 3



I think of Art Deco as Cubism for the home. It seems mathematical and intellectual rather than visceral, closer to my way of working.

—Roy Lichtenstein
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Roy Lichtenstein

Modern Sculpture with Glass Wave, 1967

Brass and glass

91 × 26 × 27 inches (231.1 × 66 × 68.6 cm)

Edition 2/3




Graphite drawing of a slender woman with one arm raised and the other behind her head wrapped in fabric secured with rope

Christo

Empaquetage d’une femme (Projet pour le film fait à Londres et Düsseldorf), 1963

Graphite on paper

28 × 22 inches (71.1 × 55.9 cm)



Drawing with the words “COUPE DE VILLE” in all caps, black letters stacked on a background comprising yellow and black stacked sections that subtly blend into each other in the middle

Ed Ruscha, COUPE DE VILLE #1, 2023

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Ed Ruscha

COUPE DE VILLE #1, 2023

Dry pigment and acrylic on paper

11 × 15 ⅛ inches (27.9 × 38.4 cm)




Abstract painting with dark blue lines running horizontally across an earth-toned background

Cy Twombly

Untitled, 1971

Oil, pencil, and wax crayon on paper

22 ½ × 20 inches (57.2 × 50.8 cm)



Expressionism is a process. You look at reality and you let it move through you. I’ve always thought this is the ultimate way of making art.

—Rudolf Stingel
Painting featuring a woman with a green face in front of a chair with allover gold patterned overlay

Rudolf Stingel

Untitled (Der Kranke), 2023

Oil and enamel on canvas

95 × 76 inches (241.3 × 193 cm)




A collage-like composite portrait painting of a Black man with a picture of flowers handing behind his head

Nathaniel Mary Quinn

Barbershop, 2024

Oil paint, oil pastel, and gouache on linen canvas over wood panel

20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm)



Detail of an abstract painting that is primarily pink, purple, blue and green gestural strokes

Jadé Fadojutimi, Untitled, 2024 (detail)

Abstract painting that is primarily pink, purple, blue and green gestural strokes

Jadé Fadojutimi

Untitled, 2024

Acrylic, oil, oil pastel, and oil stick on canvas

98 ½ × 68 ⅞ inches (250 × 175 cm)




Painting of a black woman with red lipstick wearing a white dress with a large gold necklace up against a gold backdrop

Amoako Boafo

White Opera Gloves, 2024

Oil on canvas

67 ¾ × 67 ¾ inches (172 × 172 cm)



When I’m making paintings, I want the characters to be strong, I want them to be free, I want them to be independent, I want them to be unapologetic.

—Amoako Boafo
Grotesquely large sitting figure with extended nose sitting next to fruit with holding one piece in hand

Louise Bonnet

Figure Holding Mandarins, 2024

Watercolor on paper

9 × 12 inches (22.9 × 30.5 cm)



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