Art Basel

Having contributed by lending several major works from the Lahumière Collection to the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and our own gallery, we are delighted to present a selection of beautiful pieces at our booth in Basel this year. The Staedel exhibition traced the development of Vasarely's artistic journey from his early work to his kinetic art. The Centre Pompidou exhibition focused primarily on the "Vasarely phenomenon" at the height of his popularity in the 1960s and 70s. His printmaking and monumental works were a way for him to make himself visible and accessible to a wider audience. Anne and Jean-Claude Lahumière were publishers during those years and worked with Vasarely and his screen printer, Wilfredo Arcay. Kinetic art was at its height in Europe, and it was at this time that Anne and Jean-Claude Lahumière discovered a portion of Vasarely's work that was no longer being exhibited—specifically, his work from the 1950s. Over time, they built up a significant collection of works from this period. We will be exhibiting some pieces from this time, as well as some later works.
In another part of the stand, we will present the paintings and reliefs of Jean Gorin (1899–1981), a contemporary of Piet Mondrian, who, following his advice, incorporated relief into his Neo-Plastic flat planes. This French artist, many of whose works are held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes and the Musée de Grenoble, is a key figure in the history of Neo-Plastic art. Several retrospectives celebrating the centenary of the De Stijl movement in the Netherlands in 2017 made sure to showcase the works of Jean Gorin, the "painter-architect," as Marianne Le Pommeré (author of the catalogue raisonné) calls him.
In the contemporary section, we will have the pleasure of discovering a brand-new work from the studio of Hans Jörg Glattfelder, our Basel-based artist, whose work is currently on display at the Ritter Museum in Waldenbuch, Germany. Color will be celebrated in several works on aluminum by Nicholas Bodde.