Helly Nahmad Gallery

11/14/2024

Gouged out of the white plastic surface of Alberto Burri's Combustione plastica are craters, their edges thickened, baring the scars of the burning that created them: the artist has both destroyed and celebrated his material.

The holes in the surface of this work, which was executed in 1956, create an intriguing dialogue: backed with black, they become opposed to the white of the plastic that has been burnt, an effect that Burri has both complicated and heightened through his own use of black paint upon the surface.

Burri soon became an expert at manipulating the way that his various materials burnt, allowing him to create complex compositions with deft control. He would leave little to chance, dabbing or prodding the materials in order to ensure that they caught fire only to the extent that he desired.

Image: Burri, Combustione plastica, 1956

HellyNahmadGallery

07/15/2022

JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)
Groupe de Quatre Arbres (État Définitif)
Sculpture: epoxy paint on polyurethane, in 4 parts
37 7/8 x 39 x 34 in.
96 x 100 x 87 cm.
Executed in 1970

The present work, Groupe de Quatre Arbres 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 Groupe de Quatre Arbes.

07/08/2022

“The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece of carpeting, empty and naked plains, silent and uninterrupted stretches with nothing to alter the homogeneity of their continuity. I love wide, homogenous worlds, unstaked, unlimited like the sea, like high snows, deserts, and steppes.” 
- Jean Dubuffet
 
Ciseaux I (Scissors I), 1966
acrylic on canvas
38 1/4 x 51 1/4 in.
97.2 x 130.2 cm.

07/01/2022

06/24/2022

David Hockney wrote about late Picasso’s in a letter to Richard Morphet in 1984:
“I went to NY last week to give a lecture on late Picasso at the Guggenheim. I think the show is stunning, absolutely nothing crude about it at all, indeed I think it some of the most refined painting ever done. We must learn to read the brushstroke connecting with his body, and the element of time this gives to the way of seeing. Nobody else has got near this vision yet… “

Pablo Picasso’s Le Peintre et son modèle, 1963, was part of the 1984 show at the The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, “Picasso. The Last Years 1963-197”

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Le Peintre et son modèle (The painter and the model)
Oil on canvas
31 3/4 x 39 1/4 in.
81 x 100 cm.
Executed in 1963

06/16/2022

Visit us at Art Basel booth G5.

Open to the public 16 – 19 June, 2022.

06/09/2022

HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
Jeune fille à la Mauresque, robe verte, 1921
Oil on canvas
26 x 21 5/8 in. (66 x 55 cm.)

A preview of Art Basel open to the public 16 -19 June, 2022.
Visit us at booth G5.

06/04/2022

Art Basel: Basel, June 16 – 19, 2022 preview.
The Helly Nahmad gallery is pleased to welcome you to booth G5.
We look forward to seeing you there!

WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Balancement (Balancing), 1942
Oil on canvas
35 x 45 3/4 in. (89 x 116 cm.)

05/26/2022

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Le Peintre (The Painter)
Oil on panel
51 5/8 x 38 1/2 in.
131 x 97.7 cm.
Executed in 1968
Signed and dated: 'Picasso 6.2.68' upper left

“Picasso and the Process of Creation: The Painter and His Model” exhibition currently on view until the 6th of June at Helly Nahmad Gallery, 975 Madison Ave NY, NY 10075.

05/19/2022

A closer look into our current exhibition “Picasso & the Process of Creation: The Painter and His Model”
currently up through the 6th of June 2022 located at 975 Madison Ave NY, NY 10075

“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. ”
- Pablo Picasso

Photography: Karen Fuchs