FRIEZE MASTERS

We return to Frieze Masters with a selection of historic works by celebrated 19th- and 20th-century artists from the gallery’s roster and beyond. Highlights include Édouard Manet’s ‘Pelouse du champ de courses à Longchamp’ (1865), alongside masters from the gallery’s programme, such as Philip Guston, Louise Bourgeois, Hans Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Lee Lozano, and major pieces by Francis Picabia, Josef Albers, Meret Oppenheim, Lucio Fontana, Domenico Gnoli, Giorgio Morandi, Carol Rama, Gerhard Richter and more.

First exhibited at the historically significant 1905 edition of the Salon d’Automne in Paris, Édouard Manet’s ‘Pelouse de champs de course à Longchamp (Public Enclosure at the Longchamp Racecourse)’ (1865) depicts bourgeois spectators at the races and was completed the same year as the provocative exhibition of ‘Olympia’ (1863). A companion piece to ‘Pelouse de champs de course à Longchamp’ is currently located at the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Other important works on view include a large Arshile Gorky painting titled ‘The Opaque’ from 1947, created a year before the artist’s death, and Philip Guston’s ‘Musa’ (1975), a late painting dedicated to the artist’s wife. Also on view is an iconic Josef Albers work, ‘Homage to the Square: Expectant’ (1958); an early Eva Hesse painting from c. 1960; Domenico Gnoli’s ‘La Gioconda (The Mona Lisa)’ (1965) and Giorgio Morandi’s ‘Natura Morta’ (1953).

Vilhelm Hammershøi’s ‘Interior in London, Brunswick Square’ (1912) is an extraordinary example of the artist’s seminal late work. It was painted during Hammershøi’s influential trips to London and depicts the windows and view from the Bloomsbury flat he rented between November 1912 and January 1913.

Important sculptures from 20th-century masters include Louise Bourgeois’s ‘Pillar’ (1947-1949, cast 1993), an example of her early and distinct series of Personages. The gallery also brings to the fair the biomorphic bronze sculpture ‘Hurlou sur Socle-colonne’ (conceived in 1951 / cast 1956) by Hans Arp; Meret Oppenheim’s playfully surreal sculpture ‘Eichhörnchen (Squirrel)’ (1970); as well as a delicate Alexander Calder mobile titled ‘One Yellow Crinkle’ (1975).