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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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)
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.
Joan Miró
Oiseau, 1950
Oil, gouache, ink, pastel, and charcoal on cardboard
23 ⅞ × 17 ⅜ inches (60.6 × 44.1 cm)
Jonas Wood
2 Picasso Pots with Fruit, 2024
Oil and acrylic on canvas
32 × 30 inches (81.3 × 76.2 cm)
Jonas Wood, 2 Picasso Pots with Fruit, 2024 (detail)
Pablo Picasso
Femme nue sur fond bleu, 1949
Oil on canvas
51 ¼ × 38 ¼ inches (130 × 97 cm)
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.
Richard Prince
Portrait of Cindy Sherman, 1980
Ektacolor photograph
Framed: 19 × 22 ⅞ × ⅞ inches (48.3 × 58 × 2 cm)
Jamian Juliano-Villani
Julianna, 2024
Oil on canvas
91 ⅝ × 104 inches (232.7 × 264.2 cm)
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Julianna, 2024 (detail)
Tom Wesselmann
Smoker #20, 1975
Oil on canvas
71 ½ × 67 inches (181.6 × 170.2 cm)
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
Modern Sculpture with Glass Wave, 1967
Brass and glass
91 × 26 × 27 inches (231.1 × 66 × 68.6 cm)
Edition 2/3
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)
Ed Ruscha, COUPE DE VILLE #1, 2023
Ed Ruscha
COUPE DE VILLE #1, 2023
Dry pigment and acrylic on paper
11 × 15 ⅛ inches (27.9 × 38.4 cm)
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
Untitled (Der Kranke), 2023
Oil and enamel on canvas
95 × 76 inches (241.3 × 193 cm)
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)
Jadé Fadojutimi, Untitled, 2024 (detail)
Jadé Fadojutimi
Untitled, 2024
Acrylic, oil, oil pastel, and oil stick on canvas
98 ½ × 68 ⅞ inches (250 × 175 cm)
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.
Louise Bonnet
Figure Holding Mandarins, 2024
Watercolor on paper
9 × 12 inches (22.9 × 30.5 cm)
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