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Portraits Obscured

July 20–September 12, 1998
980 Madison Avenue, New York

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Spermatozoon), 1983 Acrylic and oilstick on canvas, 66 × 60 inches (167.6 × 152.4 cm)

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Spermatozoon), 1983

Acrylic and oilstick on canvas, 66 × 60 inches (167.6 × 152.4 cm)

Francesco Clemente, Stupa, 1991 Mixed media, 5 panels: 142 ⅞ × 38 ½ inches overall (362.9 × 97.8 cm)

Francesco Clemente, Stupa, 1991

Mixed media, 5 panels: 142 ⅞ × 38 ½ inches overall (362.9 × 97.8 cm)

Willem de Kooning, Woman on a Sign I, 1967 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 47 ⅝ × 35 ¾ inches (121 × 90.8 cm)

Willem de Kooning, Woman on a Sign I, 1967

Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 47 ⅝ × 35 ¾ inches (121 × 90.8 cm)

Anselm Kiefer, Wege VI, 1978 Oil and wood-cut on canvas, 4 panels: 130 ½ × 108 ½ inches (331.5 × 275.6 cm)

Anselm Kiefer, Wege VI, 1978

Oil and wood-cut on canvas, 4 panels: 130 ½ × 108 ½ inches (331.5 × 275.6 cm)

Pablo Picasso, Femme aux Bras Croises, 1960 Oil on canvas, 39 ⅜ × 32 inches (100 × 81.3 cm)

Pablo Picasso, Femme aux Bras Croises, 1960

Oil on canvas, 39 ⅜ × 32 inches (100 × 81.3 cm)

Andy Warhol, Self Portrait (Camouflage), 1986 Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 80 × 80 inches (203.2 × 203.2 cm)

Andy Warhol, Self Portrait (Camouflage), 1986

Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 80 × 80 inches (203.2 × 203.2 cm)

About

Gagosian is pleased to present our summer show, entitled Portraits Obscured. The exhibition will feature paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, Willem de Kooning, Anselm Kiefer, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol, as well as a sculpture by David Smith.

Cover of Gagosian Quarterly, Spring 2024, featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat Cover

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2024

The Spring 2024 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available with a fresh cover design featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Lead Plate with Hole (1984).

Portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat sitting inside his studio and in front of his paintings

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Los Angeles

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s sisters, Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, met with filmmaker Tamra Davis, art dealer Larry Gagosian, and author and curator Fred Hoffman to reflect on their experiences with the artist during the 1980s in Los Angeles.

A Foreigner Called Picasso

Behind the Art
A Foreigner Called Picasso

Join president of the Picasso Museum, Paris, Cécile Debray; curator, writer, biographer, and historian Annie Cohen-Solal; art historian Vérane Tasseau; and Gagosian director Serena Cattaneo Adorno as they discuss A Foreigner Called Picasso. Organized in association with the Musée national Picasso–Paris and the Palais de la Porte Dorée–Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, the exhibition reframes our perception of Picasso and focuses on his status as a permanent foreigner in France.

Dora Maar, Portrait de Picasso, Paris, studio du 29, rue d’Astorg, winter 1935–36

A Foreigner Called Picasso

Cocurator of the exhibition A Foreigner Called Picasso, at Gagosian, New York, Annie Cohen-Solal writes about the genesis of the project, her commitment to the figure of the outsider, and Picasso’s enduring relevance to matters geopolitical and sociological.

Jerome Rothenberg in a chair

In Conversation
Jerome Rothenberg and Charles Bernstein

Gagosian and Beyond Baroque Literary | Arts Center hosted a conversation between poets Jerome Rothenberg and Charles Bernstein inside Anselm Kiefer’s exhibition Exodus at Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles. Rothenberg and Bernstein explored some of the themes that occupy Kiefer—Jewish mysticism, the poetry of Paul Celan, and the formulation of a global poetics in response to the Holocaust—in a discussion and readings of their poetry.

Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol at Paris Apartment Window, 1981

In Conversation
Christopher Makos and Jessica Beck

Andy Warhol’s Insiders at the Gagosian Shop in London’s historic Burlington Arcade is a group exhibition and shop takeover that feature works by Warhol and portraits of the artist by friends and collaborators including photographers Ronnie Cutrone, Michael Halsband, Christopher Makos, and Billy Name. To celebrate the occasion, Makos met with Gagosian director Jessica Beck to speak about his friendship with Warhol and the joy of the unexpected.