Chelsea

Gagosian

Hauser & Wirth

Gagosian Hauser & Wirth

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Willem de Kooning @ Gagosian

Espagnole

Boudoir Photography / sense of intimacy

Montauk: de Kooning’s New York suburb

Clamdigger, Willem de Kooning

1976

Hollandaise

Depicting people who dug clams near his home in Easthampton

William Kentridge @ Hauser & Wirth

Fugitive Words. William Kentridge; Žana Marović

2024

Espagnole

Its drawings, incidents, figures, text and glyphs play out between the twinned frames of the bound pages set on a studio desk.

Francis Picabia @ Hauser & Wirth

Eternal Beginning

Hollandaise
Picabia art historian: Arnauld Pierre, Candace Clements (University of Houston)

Espagnole
Eternal Beginning: postwar oeuvre of 1945-52. First major exhibition on Picabia’s final period 

George Matthieu on Picabia: like a magnificent “swan song and symbol” (chant du cygne et du signe)

Picabia paid high price on his freedom

• Jose Marti: “Freedom is very costly and one must either regain oneself to live without it, or decide to pay its price.”

• Hippocrates: art is long, life is short (ars longa, vita brevis)

Villejuif. Francis Picabia (The Jewish Village)

1951

Hollandaise

Commonly agreed as his last painting but a “last painting” is meaningless given his disassociate of fixed directions.