The gallery also returns to Frieze Masters with a presentation that focuses on one of the great luminaries of 20th-century art, Philip Guston (1913 – 1980), coinciding with the major travelling retrospective 'Philip Guston,' opening on 5 October 2023 at Tate Modern. The booth will present a selection of important paintings and works on paper by Guston from the early 1950s until the late 1970s, as well as works by modern masters who were working in and around New York at the same time as Guston. These include artists from the gallery's roster such as Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Lee Lozano, Maria Lassnig, Jack Whitten, Alexander Calder, Frank Bowling and more. Once again, the gallery will partner with Moretti Fine Art.
The visionary art of Guston spans half a century and continues to exert a powerful influence on contemporary culture today. To celebrate the Tate Modern exhibition, the gallery's booth presents a selection of paintings and works on paper by Guston dated from the early 1950s until the late 1970s, including a rarely exhibited early abstract work 'Ochre Painting I' (1951), first shown in Guston's mid-career retrospective in 1962 at the Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York. The presentation also features important late figurative works including 'Untitled (Rome)' (1971), made after the artist's residency at the American Academy in Rome in 1970 and 1971, and 'Calm Sea' (1977) painted three years before the artist's death, which is placed in dialogue with 'Black Sea' (1977), held in the collection of Tate and featured in the Tate Modern retrospective.
The booth will also bring works by modern masters who were working in and around New York at the same time as Guston, including two important sculptures by Louise Bourgeois: 'Knife Couple' (1949), an extraordinary work from Louise Bourgeois's most renowned series, the Personages, which she created between the late 1940s and early 1950s, and a late fabric head by the artist titled 'Mute' (2002). Other major 20th-century sculptures include a significant early mobile by Alexander Calder, 'Untitled' (1939), composed of a combination of delicately interlocking wires and balanced shapes, colours and proportions, shown alongside an oil on canvas by the artist.
Notable paintings on view include Ed Clark's 'Patel Wheel' (1989), exemplary of the artist's celebrated Broken Rainbow series created using a push broom, as well as the extraordinary Frank Bowling painting 'Mother's House and Night Storm' (1967), which has just been shown at the artist's recent exhibition at SF MoMA. Additional painterly works by modern masters include a rarely exhibited, early abstract painting 'Atlantis Rising' (1966) by Jack Whitten and Eva Hesse's 'No title' (1960), made by the artist when she was merely 24 years old.
Date
Wednesday Preview, October 11 (invitation only): 11am – 7pm
Thursday Preview, October 12: (Members and invitation only preview 11am – 1pm). 1pm – 7pm general admission tickets
Friday, October 13: 11am – 7pm
Saturday, October 14: 11am – 7pm
Sunday, October 15: 11am - 6pm
Location
The Regent's Park, London