Hauser & Wirth celebrates Art Basel’s return to the Grand Palais with historic and contemporary masterpieces

Philip Guston, 'Tears', (1977)

16 – 20 October 2024
​Booth B23

Hauser Wirth celebrates the fair’s return to the historic Grand Palais with a firework of historic and contemporary masterpieces, showcasing the caliber of the gallery’s multigenerational program. The selection will spotlight many artists who have profound links to Paris, including the influential French-born, New York-based artist Louise Bourgeois, whose masterpiece ‘Spider I’ (1995) from the artist’s iconic Spider Series will climb the booth’s walls. Historic highlights include the oil on canvas ‘Propagation-Yellow-S’ (1971) by Takesada Matsutani, who moved to the city in 1966 and established his base there, as well as ‘Red, Blue, & Black (Paris Series #4)’ (1989) by Ed Clark, exemplifying ‘the big sweep,’ his celebrated painting technique developed in Paris. These historic works will be accompanied by Philip Guston’s monumental ‘Tears’ (1977), created after the artist turned away from abstraction to assert an unprecedented new figural language.

Louise Bourgeois, 'Spider I', 1995Jeffrey Gibson, 'I will continue to change,' 2024

The fair selection features works by artists with major institutional shows and projects in Paris and beyond. This includes a large-scale bronze, silk and wool sculpture by Barbara Chase-Riboud, who is the subject of a city-wide solo exhibition in which eight leading Parisian museums, including the Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Palais de la Porte Dorée and Palais de Tokyo, among others, have come together for the first time. Presented in the context of her life in Paris, having settled in the city in 1961, this monumental show forms dialogues with the collections that have inspired her.

Thomas J Price, 'Time Unfolding,' 2024 (detail)Hélène Delprat, 'Autoportrait en peintre pressé,' 2024Barbara Chase-Riboud, 'Numero Noir #2,' 2021

Giving insight to Guillermo Kuitca’s site-specific work for the Musée Picasso Paris in the chapel of the Hôtel Salé, a painting by the artist will feature on the booth, as well as a work by Pat Steir in celebration of ‘Pat Steir. Light on Water’ at Lee Ufan Arles until 12 January 2025. Further standout works include a bronze sculpture by Thomas J Price, who is featured in ‘Corps In-visibles’ at Musée Rodin until 2 March 2025, and a new work on canvas by Hélène Delprat, who is participating in the 17th edition of the Lyon Biennale, on view until 5 January 2025, and will be the subject of an exhibition at La Fondation Maeght in Spring 2025.

Frank Bowling, 'Early Pour,' 2024

Marking Jeffrey Gibson’s debut with the gallery following his representation, in collaboration with Sikkema Jenkins & Co., ‘I will continue to change’ (2024) exemplifies the Indigenous handcraft of beadwork, drawing on his Choctaw and Cherokee heritage. Mark Bradford’s new mixed media on canvas, ‘Not Quite in a Hurry’ (2024), will be unveiled, alongside works straight from the studios of Rita Ackermann, Jenny Holzer, Avery Singer and Flora Yukhnovich, whose oeuvre has been inspired by the French Rococo works of François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Aspects of abject imagery and the uncanny in Anj Smith’s new painting can be compared with the strategies of Surrealism, which celebrates the centenary of its founding this year. The booth also presents the recent portrait ‘Untitled’ (2022) by Henry Taylor, who inaugurated Hauser & Wirth’s location in Paris, and Frank Bowling’s ‘Early Pour’ (2024), anticipating his spring 2025 show at the gallery.

Alongside the fair, Rashid Johnson will present new paintings, sculptures and a film at the gallery’s space on rue François 1er in a show entitled ‘Anima’.

Guillermo Kuitca, 'Untitled,' 2023Flora Yukhnovich, 'Fête galante IV,' 2024

Press contacts:
​Alice Haguenauer, Hauser & Wirth, alicehaguenauer@hauserwirth.com, +44 7880 421823 ​
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^{Philip Guston, Tears, 1977, Oil on canvas, 172.7 x 290.8 cm / 68 x 114 1/2 in © The Estate of Philip Guston. Courtesy the Estate and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Genevieve Hanson}

^{Louise Bourgeois, Spider I, 1995, Bronze, dark and polished patina, wall piece, Edition of 6 + 1 AP, 127 x 116.8 x 31.1 cm / 50 x 46 x 12 1/4 in © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY. Courtesy the Foundation and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Christopher Burke}

^{Jeffrey Gibson, I will continue to change, 2024, Acrylic paint on canvas, glass beads, artificial sinew inset in custom wood frame, 209.2 x 229.6 x 6.7 cm / 82 3/8 x 90 3/8 x 2 5/8 in © Jeffrey Gibson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Max Yawney}

^{Thomas J Price, Time Unfolding (detail), 2024, Bronze, Edition of 5 + 2 AP, 176 x 37 x 37 cm / 69 1/4 x 14 5/8 x 14 5/8 in © Thomas J Price. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Jon Etter}

^{Hélène Delprat, Autoportrait en peintre pressé, 2024, Pigment, acrylic binder and glitter on canvas, 196.7 x 181 x 3.7 cm / 77 1/2 x 71 1/4 x 1 1/2 in © Hélène Delprat, Adagp, Paris, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Nicolas Brasseur}

^{Barbara Chase-Riboud, Numero Noir #2, 2021, Bronze with black patina, silk, wool and synthetic fibers with steel support, 212 x 60 cm / 83 1/2 x 23 5/8 in © Barbara Chase-Riboud. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Riccardo Molino}

^{Frank Bowling, Early Pour, 2024, Acrylic on canvas with marouflage, 192.5 x 262 x 4.3 cm / 75 3/4 x 103 1/8 x 1 3/4 in © Frank Bowling. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2024. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Alex Delfanne}

^{Guillermo Kuitca, Untitled, 2023, Oil on canvas, 109.9 x 90.5 x 2.5 cm / 43 1/4 x 35 5/8 x 1 in © Guillermo Kuitca. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Thomas Barratt}

^{Flora Yukhnovich, Fête galante IV, 2024, Oil on linen, 60 x 70 x 3.5 cm / 23 5/8 x 27 1/2 x 1 3/8 in © Flora Yukhnovich. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Victoria Miro. Photo: Alex Delfanne}