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Masterworks

Curated by Helly Nahmad and Marzina Marzetti

October 6, 2019 – April 1, 2022

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theInstallation view of Masterworks. This photo feature a green painting by Lucio Fontana pierced with holes contained in the shape of a circle. Next to the Fontana painting on the right is a large scale sculpture by Joan Miro, in an assemblage manner made of found objects later poured in bronze and painted over, we can see a box standing on one of its side, pierced on the top by a tall yellow fork. There is also a red ball seating on the box.

This is an installation view that shows a painting and its frame by Jean Dubuffet produced in 1982 titled Lieu Frequente.

Installation view of Masterworks. This image features a painting by Matta.

This is a photography of a painting by Picasso in its Spanish frame. The painting produces in 1967 is titled The Painter and represents a Musketeer. Painted two years after Picasso re-reads The Musketeer by Alexandre Dumas.

This is a photo of a large scale painting produced by Joan Miro titled "Femme à la voix de rossignol dans la nuit" and produced 1971. It is abstract and the rectangular horizontal canvas is composed of 3 ares each divided by a thick black line. The left side is depicting in a calligraphic brushstoke style executed with thick black line a shape that looks like the top part of a large fish, revealing a head and an eye. Theres a rectangular dark green area under that animal like form on the left of it is an area painting in bright yellow. On the right of that form is the center of the canvas shaped as a wide red cone shape with a large black dot at its bottom. On the right of the canvas, the area is divided in four very wide stripes piled up horizontally, the first stripe is black, the second underneath is a rich blue azure, underneath is the raw canvas not painted with the motif of a large star executed with thick black lines there is two dots on the right of it, one green, one purple. underneath there is a black stripe.

Installation view of Masterworks. This image shows sculpture by Dubuffet representing four small tree on a white pedestal in the center of the main area of the gallery. They are all painted in white and covered with thick black lines, like Dubuffet's signature Hourloupe style.

Installation view of Masterworks. This image shows a large scale painting by Roberto Matta and in the background a chunk of a painting by Joan Miro.

Picasso, Le Peintre (The Painter), 1967

Pablo Picasso, Homme à la pipe et nu couché, 1967 This painting shows a couple fully occupy who the canvas. The man is seated smoking a pipe and the nude woman is laying down. The overall background is painted in mauve tons we can perceive the large brushstrokes. The figures are painted in white and grey tons and their features are achieved with thick black lines.

Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, 1966 Waterbased paint on canvas with multiple holes (green) 100 x 81 cm. (38 3/8 x 31 7/8 in.) This painting only features one color a rich clover green. The shape of the canvas is a horizontal rectangular shape, an oval circle occupies most of the canvas it is slightly delineated with a thin line barely visible produced with a tip. The circle is perforated by multiple small holes, arranged in fifteen horizontal lines contained inside the oval shape.

Picasso, Guitare (Guitar), 1918 Oil and sand on canvas 54 x 65 cm. (21 1/4 x 25 5/8 in.) ©Helly Nahmad Gallery NY. This beautiful painting by Picasso depicts a guitar. To depict the wooden body of the guitar Picasso filled the area with real sand. Around the guitar and in the center of the canvas Picasso painted a false frame in the shape of an hexagon with six sides, which makes the work interesting, as it represents a painting noting inside the canvas. On top of this false hexagon frame is a small circle as if this internal painting was actually hung inside the canvas we are looking at. The tons are warm as the background of the canvas is painted in a bright yellow. Regarding the framing device surrounding the guitar, the left side is black and the right side is a rich reddish brown. This is a beautiful co position featuring geometric and prismatic shape to depict this instrument.

Joan Miró, Femme et Oiseau, 1967.In Femme et oiseau, a black painted wooden crate is pierced with a bright yellow pitchfork, next to which sits a ball painted a vibrant red. Miró's use of bright primary and secondary colors for each component emphasized the individuality of each of the elements, setting them aside from the whole. In the present sculpture, femininity and fertility are represented by the red ball; in other works, it is an egg or a stone. The beak of the bird is possibly represented. by the green cone-lie element and the pitchfork is a wing or a plume.

this is a photo of Jean Dubuffet's acrylic and paper collage titled "Lieu Fréquenté", produced in 1982. It shows five characters depicted very simply over an abstract background painted in red blue and black tones.

Giorgio de Chirico, Mobili Nella Valle, 1927

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Jean Dubuffet, Groupe de Quatre Arbres (État Définitif), 1970 96 x 100 x 87 cm. (37 7/8 x 39 x 34) Epoxy paint on polyurethane, in 4 parts ©Helly Nahmad Gallery NY. The present work, Group of four trees from 1970 belongs Dubuffet's acclaimed Hourloupe cycle series from 1962 to 1974. The works created during this period resemble familiar objects and forms and yet these works recall a fantastical parallel universe where the line between the real and the imaginary is blurred. The figures and objects of the Hourloupe cycle all emulate an existing reality or an everyday object. Dubuffet referred to them as a reflection of the tangible as it appears in the mind. It is in this context that one should experience Group of four trees.

Max Ernst, A Maiden, a Widow and a Wife, 1966. Championing dreams and intuition in the making of his works, Ernst invented the “Frottage” technique, placing paper over textured material to achieve different patterns on the canvas. He also made landscape a major theme in the Surrealists endeavors.⁣⠀ “A Maiden, a Widow and a Wife,” offers a compelling example of these three elements, with the coarse surfaces of its red transfigured, organic shapes delineated from a soothing blue and green background.⁣⠀ Ernst’s arcane and powerful imagery resonates in its ability to transmute an ordinary landscape into a mysterious sight.⁣⠀

Joan Miró, Femme et Oiseau (18 / VIII/71 II and 24/XII/76 ), 1971-76 Brush and indian ink colored crayons on Guarro paper 79.8 x 56.5 cm. (31 2/5 x 22 1/5 in.)

Alexander Calder, Black II, 1949. Elegantly standing as though poised on tiptoe, Alexander Calder’s Black II is an exquisite example of the artist’s innovative combination of sculptural dynamism and grace. Comprised of dynamic upward arcs of red metal planes that pierce through a sunny yellow disk before culminating in a carefully balanced arm supporting a floating arrangement of multicolored discs, Black II incorporates many of the iconic motifs that Calder used throughout his career. With this particular form, Calder successfully incorporates both the graceful movement that he pioneered in his groundbreaking mobiles together with the more substantial nature of his mature postwar work.

Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1948 Hanging mobile—sheet metal, wire and paint 134.6 x 182.8 x 63.5 cm. (53 x 72 in. x 25 in.) Untitled, 1948, offers a graceful and harmonious composition held by a single wire. Floating polychromatic elements, resembling the distant sight of birds, gently revolve in their own trajectories when caught by the air. These movements are held by a delicate anchor, offering a point of orbit and balance to this elegant composition.

Alexander Calder, Haute Couture, 1976

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