Hauser & Wirth's display for Frieze Masters is once again partnered with Moretti Fine Art, including highlights from 20th-century masters such as: Hans Arp, Eduardo Chillida, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Eva Hesse, Dieter Roth, August Sander, David Smith and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.
Philip Guston's Feet on Rug (1978) first appeared in Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–80 at Whitechapel Gallery in London in 1982. The seminal work forms part of Guston's cartoonish paintings made in the 70s which employed a narrative realism that distorted everyday reality. These paintings are considered his greatest and most lasting contribution to art history, and have gone on to profoundly influence both stylistic and philosophical concerns of a subsequent generation of contemporary artists.
Additional standout works featured within the presentation include Ed Clark's Ife Yellow (1975), demonstrating the artist's pioneering approach to abstraction that yielded an oeuvre of remarkable originality. An early painting by David Smith, Untitled (1931–1932), upends the viewer's expectations in the same way that his later sculpture would defy traditional criteria.