Gagosian is ready to shut a chapter in its historical past, the top of its residence at its 980 Madison location within the Higher East Facet, with an exhibition devoted to Pablo Picasso.
Introduced in collaboration with the artist’s daughter Paloma Picasso, “Picasso: Tête-à-Tête” will open April 18 and showcase greater than 50 not often seen work, sculptures, and drawings spanning Picasso’s total profession, from 1896 to 1972. Practically a dozen of those works shall be unveiled to the general public for the primary time, whereas others return to view after many years in personal fingers.
This exhibition marks a poignant farewell to Gagosian’s flagship 980 Madison Avenue location, which was first reported in 2023. The constructing was initially designed for public sale home Parke-Bernet, which was acquired by Sotheby’s within the Nineteen Sixties after which vacated the constructing in 1987. Gagosian’s has been at 980 Madison Avenue since 1989, although its Higher East Facet presence is just not shifting far as renovations are presently underway at street-facing areas at 976 Madison Avenue.
Drawn largely from Picasso’s property, “Picasso: Tête-à-Tête,” the gallery’s twenty first present devoted to the Cubist grasp, would be the Paloma’s first main worldwide exhibition since she was appointed head of the Picasso Administration in 2023. Lots of Gagosian’s earlier reveals have been collaborations with different members of the Picasso household, together with the artist’s grandchildren Bernard Ruiz-Picasso and Diana Widmaier Picasso, and the artist’s son Claude Pierre Pablo Picasso.
(The urge for food for good Picasso reveals is boundless, as confirmed final yr. A couple of weeks later, on Might 1, the supplier Almine Rech will current “Pablo Picasso: Nonetheless Life” in collaboration with Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, which she cofounded along with her husband in 2002.)
Gagosian’s exhibition takes inspiration from Picasso’s personal method to curation. Data present that in his 1932 retrospective at Galerie Georges Petit in Paris, he eschewed strict chronology in favor of a dynamic dialogue between works from totally different intervals and types. “Picasso: Tête-à-Tête” follows this mannequin, juxtaposing work, sculptures, and drawings from throughout his oeuvre to ask contemporary interpretations of the artist’s boundless creativity.
Gagosian will publish a completely illustrated exhibition catalogue that includes a dialog between Paloma and artist Peter Doig, who curated an exhibition on the 980 Madison house final fall. The publication will even embrace a translation of an article by critic Eric Tériade on Picasso’s 1932 Paris set up, additional contextualizing the exhibition’s method.
“I used to be delighted when Larry instructed we work collectively on a major exhibition,” Paloma stated in a press release. “Exhibiting my father’s work as he wished it to be seen—in dialog throughout topics and intervals—is a becoming tribute to his legacy. Various the works we chosen haven’t been seen since my father had them in his studio, and to have them reunited with essential examples from different collections shall be a really particular occasion.”
