Salon Art + Design NYC 2020

Preface
In a world slowed down by unprecedented events, the worlds of Art and Design have
continued to thrive. This November, the ninth edition of Salon Art + Design opens
online, and Opera Gallery is delighted to be part of this fair, which seizes opportunity
from the limitations of the current global paradigm, turning restrictive conditions on
their head, in a digital and interactive magazine format. Salon Art + Design features
over sixty international galleries, exhibiting artists from all around the world.
Each year, Opera Gallery strives to exhibit the very best of the contemporary art world,
elevating the artists who will become the designers of our generation. This year’s
edition is all the more important for proving that, no matter the challenges, innovation
and creativity always find a way to show us the best of human creation.
For the 2020 online edition, Opera Gallery has chosen to present artists from all genres
and backgrounds, from the renowned modern painter and sculptor Fernando Botero
to contemporary master of geometrical shapes Anthony James.
This exhibition presents an exceptional selection of works on canvas and paper,
sculptures, and other media from such timeless artists as Ai Weiwei, Ron Arad, Pablo
Atchugarry, Fernando Botero, Alexander Calder, George Condo, Jean Dubuffet,
Anthony James, Alex Katz, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Julian Opie, Niki de Saint Phalle
and Manolo Valdés.
Gilles Dyan
Founder and Chairman
Opera Gallery Group
Laura Adams
Director
Opera Gallery New York
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Alexander CALDER
(1898-1976)
Alexander Calder was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA in 1898. He was the son
of Alexander Stirling Calder and grandson of Alexander Milne Calder, both well-known
sculptors. After obtaining his mechanical engineering degree from the Stevens Institute
of Technology, Calder worked various jobs before enrolling at the Art Students League in
New York City in 1923. It was here that he finished his first miniature travelling circus and
began making a name for himself as an innovative Abstract sculptor. Calder is known
as the originator of the suspended or standing kinetic sculpture made from delicately
balanced shapes and set in motion by air currents; a device Marcel Duchamp named
‘mobiles’. He was awarded the main prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennial in 1952 and
first prize for sculpture in the 1954 Pittsburgh International. Calder created a series of
paintings in gouache during a yearlong stay in Aix-en-Provence, France in 1953 in parallel
to his sculptural practice. The gouache allowed Calder to quickly translate the vocabulary
of his sculpture into something more immediate, using an Angular Figuratism, which
often served as inspiration for later sculpted works. Presenting a synthesis of geometric
forms, Calder’s lines convey, with considered simplicity, the abundance and diversity of
nature and the spontaneous impressions it evokes.
His works are held in almost every major museum collection worldwide including the
Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Neue
Nationalgalerie in Berlin or the Fondation Beyeler in Basel.
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Rocher au cœur rouge
1974
Dated and incised with the artist monogram on the base
Painted Metal and wire
Unique piece
42.5 x 43.7 x 27 in
108 x 111 x 68.5 cm
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf, Chicago, 1974
Private collection, Paris
Christie’s, London, 30 June 1994, lot 45
Michael Haas, Berlin
Sotheby’s, London, 24 October 1996, lot 47
Private collection
Exhibited
New York, Perls Galleries, Alexander CALDER: Crags and Critters of 1974, October - November 1974
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Wer Hat Angst Rot, June - September 1995
London, Hellly Nahmad Gallery, Love, March - May 2000
Beverly Hills, Gagosian Gallery, Alexander Calder, May - June 2003
New-York, Hammer Galleries, Object in Space: Léger, Miró, Calder, November 2012 - January 2013
Literature
New York, Hammer Galleries, Objects in space: Léger, Miro, Calder, November 2012-January 2013, pp. 70-71, 86 ill.
New York, Perls Galleries, Alexander Calder: Crags and Critters of 1974, October - November 1974, no. 7
London, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Love, March-May 2000, no. 29
Certificate
The work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York
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Red Octopus
1971
Signed and dated on the lower right
Gouache on paper
29.5 x 42.9 in
75 x 109 cm
Provenance
Pearls Gallery, New York
Private collection, Spain
Art Trade, Spain
Certificate
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York
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Osaka
1970
Signed and dated on the lower right, titled and numbered on the reverse
Gouache on paper
29.3 x 42.3 in
74.5 x 107.5 cm
Provenance
Galerie Maeght, Paris
Galleria Angolare, Milan, 1974
Private collection, Massachusetts
Certificate
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York
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Pablo ATCHUGARRY
(b. 1954)
Pablo Atchugarry was born in 1954 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Working at first with cement
and iron in the 1970s, he rose to prominence for his works in marble in the 1980s. He was
awarded the Michelangelo Award from the city of Carrara, Italy, in 1999 for his artistic
achievements in working with Carrara marble. The following year, he represented Uruguay
at the 50 th Venice Biennale with the sculpture Soñando la Paz, an eight-piece-work
work in Carrara and Bardiglio della Garfagnana marble. In 2007, the artist established
the nonprofit institution Fundación Pablo Atchugarry in Manantiales, Uruguay, which
promotes visual arts, music, and literature in the community.
His work is exhibited in numerous museums and public institutions worldwide, including
the National Museum of Visual Arts of Montevideo, Uruguay; the Parco Museum of
Parco de Portofino, the Lercaro Museum of Bologna, the Collection of the Province of
Milan, Italy; the Franc Daurel Foundation in Barcelona, Spain ; the Groeningemuseum
in Bruges, Belgium; the Berardo Collection in Portugal; the Perez Art Museum in Miami,
USA and the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, UK. Atchugarry’s works can be found
in public and private collections internationally. He currently lives and works between
Lecco, Italy, and Manantiales, Uruguay.
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Untitled
2019
Carrara Marble
Unique piece
39.8 x 16.9 x 16.9 in
101 x 43 x 43 cm
Provenance
Artist’s studio
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Manolo VALDÉS
(b. 1942)
Born in Valencia, Spain, in 1942, Manolo Valdés is one of the few artists who have mastered
multiple mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. In each form
he is considered highly original, technically sound and constantly provocative.
Manolo Valdés began training as a painter in 1957 at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes
de San Carlos de Valencia, Spain. In 1964, Valdés formed the group Equipo Crónica,
with Joan A. Toledo and Rafael Solbes; Toledo left the group after a year but Valdés
and Solbes continued their association with Equipo Crónica until the death of Solbes in
1981. Thanks to this group, Manolo Valdés participated in over sixty solo exhibitions and
numerous group exhibitions until 1981.
After 1981, Valdés embarked on a solo career focusing on Art History motifs: his work
often quotes figures from well-known pieces of art, revitalizing its image through a
change of context. Manolo Valdés moved away from linear irony to interpret the image
as a symbol and a vehicle for contact between the work of Art and the spectator. He has
continued to seek inspiration in the creations of the grand masters of the History of Art
such as Velázquez, Rembrandt or Goya.
Influenced by historical masterpieces, Valdés creates large works in which the lighting
and colors express a sensation of tactility. His work is forceful and decorated with
historical art symbols. The timelessness of the image as the axis of the visual experience
is the determining factor in his creations. In his works, image and matter are fused in
a body of work that wanders between Pop Art and material art, between social and
political commitment and a continuous search for reinvention.
Throughout his long career, Valdés has never stopped investigating and reinventing
Art, with an insatiable appetite for conceptual and plastic experimentation. The result
is unanimous critical acclaim and recognition from a growing public for his works that
can be found in the great museums of the world. Manolo Valdés’ works are included
in several private and public collections around the world, including but not limited
to Peggy Guggenheim collection in Venice, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,
Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain, and the de Young
Museum in San Francisco.
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Matisse como Pretexto con Azul y Rojo
2020
Mixed media
51.2 x 39.4 in
130 x 100 cm
Provenance
Artist’s studio
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Clio Dorada
2018
Bronze with Gold Patina and Steel
Edition of 9
45.7 x 36.4 in
116 x 92.5 cm
Provenance
Artist’s studio
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Portrait I
2018
Mixed media on burlap
65 x 55.1 in
165 x 140 cm
Provenance
Artist’s studio
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Jean DUBUFFET
(1901 - 1985)
Born in Le Havre, France, Jean Dubuffet is considered the founding father of Art Brut.
Rejecting traditional fundamentals of art and institutionalized culture, Dubuffet twice
declared to leave the world of art before devoting himself full time in 1942. His interest in
works of art produced by people working outside of aesthetic norms, such as children,
prisoners and psychiatric patients, became the core of his artistic philosophy, and he
remains one of the most controversial Post-War French artists in history. Dubuffet’s
œuvre includes paintings, collages, sculptures and monuments.
1974 marked the end of Dubuffet’s highly esteemed ‘Hourloupe’ cycle, a twelve-year
project that became the artist’s most formative series. During the last ten years of his
life, Dubuffet made a series of works with colored pencil and felt tip pen on paper. In
the artist’s own words, these works were ‘excursions of the mind into no man’s land.’
Expanding his color palette and revisiting collage techniques from earlier periods in his
career, these more intimate drawings embody the artist’s signature structural approaches
to color and form.
Retrospectives of his works have been held in famous international museums such as
the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the Tate Gallery in London, the Centre Georges Pompidou
in Paris and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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Personnage (P374)
1972
Monogrammed and dated on the lower right
Marker and collage on paper
19.8 x 11.5 in
50.2 x 29.2 cm
Provenance
Pace Gallery, New York
Private collection, New York
Sotheby’s, New York, 18 November 1999, lot 361
Private collection
Exhibited
Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, Dubuffet, 14 - 28 March 1974
New York, The Pace Gallery, Dubuffet: Studies for a Spectacle, 5 May - 27 June 1973, catalogue no. 10
Literature
Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXVII : Coucou Bazar, Weber editions, Lausanne, 1976,
p. 84, no. 151, ill.
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Élément bleu XII
1967
Signed JD and dated on the lower right side
Transfer on polyester resin
78.7 x 37.8 x 3.9 in
200 x 96 x 10 cm
Provenance
Artist’s studio
Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Geneva, 1967
Collection Georges Braunschweig, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1968
Elvire and Philippe Braunschweig collection, Villa Turque, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1975
Valerie Braunschweig collection, New York, 1992
Literature
Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, sculptures peintes, fascicule XXIII, Lausanne 1972, p. 81, no.61, ill..
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Niki de SAINT PHALLE
(1930-2002)
Niki de Saint Phalle is a French-American artist who was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine,
France, and grew up in New York. A self-taught artist, she lived and worked between
France, Switzerland and the United States.
Niki de Saint Phalle was part of the Nouveaux Réalistes group, which she joined in
1964 through her husband, artist Jean Tinguely. She first received worldwide attention
for angry, violent assemblages which she had shot using firearms. These evolved into
Nanas, light-hearted, whimsical, colorful, large-scale sculptures of animals, monsters,
and female figures, first made of wool, yarn, paper-maché and wire scaffoldings and
later made of polyester. These voluptuous female figures served to represent the ideal
archetype for women in modern society, and can be seen in cities and museums all over
the world.
Saint Phalle’s monumental works are exhibited at the Stravinsky Fountain, next to the
Pompidou in Paris (1983), the Tarot Garden in Garavicchio, South of Tuscany (1998), the
Grotto in the Royal Garden Herrenhausen of Hannover (2003), and Queen Califia’s Magic
Circle in California (2003). Her works are also held in the collections of the Courtauld
Institute of Art in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Walker Art Center
in Minneapolis, and the Musée d’Art Moderne d’Art Contemporain in Nice, among others.
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Je suis à l’envers
1998
Acrylic on polyester resin
Edition of 5
46.1 x 31.5 x 5.5 in
117 x 80 x 14 cm
Provenance
Tasende Gallery, La Jolla
Private collection
Literature
Mingei International Museum of San Diego, Niki de Saint Phalle - insider / outsider - world inspired art, La Jolla, Mingei
International Museum, 1998, p. 117, ill.
Michel de Grèce, Niki de Saint-Phalle Catalogue Raisonné 1949 - 2000, Vol. I, Lausanne, Acatos, 2001, p. 294, no. 645, ill.
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Oiseau
1968
Painted fiberglass
Unique piece
32.9 x 54.7 x 9.1 in
83.5 x 139 x 23 cm
Provenance
Schuler Auktionen, 19 March 2010, lot 4081
Private collection, Europe
Certificate
The work is registered with the Archives Niki Charitable Art Foundation, Santee
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AI Weiwei
(b.1957)
Ai Weiwei was born in 1957 in Beijing, China. He is one of the most influential artists
of our time and is known worldwide for his art and activism, ranging from sculptural
installations, architectural projects to photographs or videos.
During his childhood his father, the poet Ai Ging, was sent to a labor camp as an enemy
of the revolution; Ai Weiwei then grew up in exile in a remote Chinese county until 1976.
After attending the Beijing Film Academy from 1978 to 1981, Ai moved to New York and
briefly attended Parsons School of Design. He returned to China in 1993 and participated
in establishing the community of experimental artists Beijing East Village.
Ai’s art is driven by social activism, often criticizing the sociopolitical system in China.
His provocative and subversive art testify his political beliefs and triggered several forms
of repression from Chinese authorities. He was incarcerated for months in 2011, then
released to house arrest. Despite being forbidden to travel outside of China or engaging
public speeches, the artists keeps creating pieces of art that openly confront Chinese
Communist leadership and promoting freedom of expression.
Ai was awarded numerous prizes and recognitions such as the Chinese Contemporary
Art Award in 2008, the Skowhegan Medal in 2011 or the Honorary Academician at the
Royal Academy of Arts, London in 2011. His work can be found in the greatest museums
worldwide and has been the subject of numerous solo shows in institutions such as
the Tate Modern, London, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Hirshhorn museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington DC or Indianapolis Museum of Art, among others.
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Marble Chair
2008
Marble
46.5 x 22 x 17.1 in
118.1 x 55.9 x 43.5 cm
Provenance
Lisson Gallery, New York
Private collection
Certificate
The artist confirmed the authenticity of the artwork
Exhibited
Madrid, Ivorypress, AI Weiwei. Ways beyond art, 2009
Literature
Elena Ochoa Foster and Hans Ulrich Obrist, AI Weiwei. Ways beyond art, vorypress Ed., Spain, 2009, pp. 50-51
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Yayoi KUSAMA
(b. 1929)
Yayoi Kusama is born in Matsumoto, Japan in 1929. She came to prominence as a
leading figure in the Post-War Avant-Garde in the United States, where she developed a
multi-faceted, conceptually-based practice that incorporates installation, performance,
painting and collage. While hugely influential upon an emerging generation of artists,
commercial success escaped her and she returned to Japan in the 1970s, where she
voluntarily checked herself into a psychiatric institution from which she has worked ever
since. She is now widely recognized among the most important living Japanese artists.
Yayoi Kusama is a protean artist who participated to the Pop Art movement in the
United States, but she doesn’t really belong strictly to a single Art movement. Her work
has also a strong psychedelic characteristic as she is influenced by an hallucinatory
episod she encountered when she was younger. The polka dot is her trademark and it is
very represented in her work.Kusama was also a major figure in the performance field in
the US, she started her first happenings in the late 1950s. Her happenings often included
nudity and highlight political questions, which make her a pioneer in this category.
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Infinity-Nets (KSUZL)
2017
Signed, titled and dated
Acrylic on canvas
63.7 x 51.4 in
161.9 x 130.5 cm
Provenance
OTA Fine Arts, Singapore
David Zwirner, New York
Private collection
Certificate
Yayoi Kusama, Inc. has confirmed the authenticity of this work
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Alex KATZ
(b. 1927)
Alex Katz was born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, to a Russian family. A true child
of the Five Boroughs, Katz grew up in the St. Albans suburbs in Queens and graduated
from Manhattan’s Copper Union in 1949 where he studied Modern Art theories and
techniques under Morris Kantor. Katz’s experience of plein air painting at the Skowhegan
School in Maine was pivotal in his development as a painter. The artist experiments
with color – using monochrome backgrounds in his artworks early on, dimensions, scale
and materials. From the 1950s and on, Katz worked on a range of subjects and genres
such as portraits, landscapes and still life such as flowers. His wife and muse, Ada, is
often represented in his paintings. The painter reduces scenes or movement unto a flat
surface with clean-cut contours. Katz also experimented with designing theatre sets and
costumes. Considering himself a Post-Abstract painter, Katz is interested in exploring
how “realism” can be redefined.
His work has been exhibited extensively since the 1950s. The painter’s work from different
decades of his career and on various medium were subject of museum exhibitions
at renowned institutions such as the Tate Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery in
London; the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain ; the Albertina Museum in Vienna and
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He has received many awards throughout
his lauded career and his work is featured in more than 100 public collections worldwide.
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Roses on Blue
2002
Signed and dated on the overlap
Oil on canvas
48 x 150 in
122 x 381 cm
Provenance
Pace Gallery, New York
Private collection
Literature
New York, Pace Gallery, Alex Katz, Flowers and Landscapes, October - November 2003, pp. 40, 47, ill.
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George CONDO
(b. 1957)
George Condo was born in Concord, New Hampshire, USA, in 1957. He lives and works in
New York. Condo is recognized as being one of America’s most influential living artists. In
a career spanning more than three decades, Condo’s highly original and distinctive body
of work has consistently drawn upon art historical traditions and genres, the portrait
particularly, in order to hold a mirror up to contemporary social mores. Condo first started
exhibiting his hybrid style paintings in the 1980s. His work daringly fused the sensibilities
of European Old Master painting with references to popular American culture, including
Playboy magazine, comics and cartoons. Condo coined the term “Artificial Realism”, to
describe his approach or, in other words, “the realistic representation of that which is
artificial”. Between 1985 and 1995, Condo worked in both Paris and New York, and spent
a considerable amount of time in the French capital where he met writer William S.
Burroughs (with whom he has collaborated) and the philosopher Félix Guattari, who
has written extensively on his work. Throughout his career, Condo has never deviated
from his personal vision. His unique pictorial inventions, “imaginary portraits” and often
grotesque but classically executed paintings continue to surprise and, at times, horrify.
His works feature in important public and private collections, including the Museum of
Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York; the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; the Astrup Fearnley Museet,
Oslo and the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris.
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Whistler’s Father
2019
Signed and dated on the upper left
Acrylic and oil stick on canvas
76 x 74 in
193 x 188 cm
Provenance
Skarstedt Gallery, New York
Private collection
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Untitled
2015
Signed and dated on the upper left
Graphite on paper
30.2 x 44 in
76.8 x 111.8 cm
Provenance
Skarstedt Gallery, New York
Private collection, 2015
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Anthony JAMES
(b. 1974)
Anthony James is a British-American artist based in Los Angeles, known for his
monumental installations and sculptures. He was born in England in 1974 and studied in
London at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design from 1994 to 1998. His work
gestures towards minimalism, materiality, process, alchemy, language, mechanisation
and experimentation with light and space.
James’ objects show a formal certainty and perspicuity (exact symmetry, white light,
accurate shape) that registers purity, autonomy and wholeness. His works illustrate
ideals, but they themselves are very contingent and actual: they are for today.
The sculptures operate between the iconic and the arbitrary, the concrete and the
alchemic, the mythical and the experiential. James describes his work as, “evoking pictorial
depictions of the cosmos, alluding to notions of mysticism, ethereality, spirituality and
science, all the while anchored through the use of weighty, industrial materials”.
His globes of multiple geometrical facets come from a mathematical experiment in
unity used by Plato to demonstrate an ideal compositional system of perfect symmetry
in three dimensions. In a twenty-first century gallery space, the glass, steel, and LED
structures bring a rigid and gleaming tangibility to the abstraction of the numerical
calculation of flawless coherence. James’ artworks are compelling approximations,
facsimiles of understanding and belief thousands of years old that come down to us on
our own terms of modern metals and technological light.
Anthony James has exhibited in several international Museums. His first monograph,
‘Morphic fields’, was published by Hatje Cantz in 2014. His work has recently been
exhibited at Crystal Bridges Museum, ‘Crystals in Art, ancient and today’, Bentoville, USA
(October 2019 - January 2020), curated by Joachim Pissarro and Lauren Hayes.
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60” Triacontahedron (Solar Black)
2020
Stainless steel, glass, LED, Solar Black finish
Edition of 6
60 x 60 in
152.4 x 152.4 cm
Provenance
Artist’s studio
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60” Great Rhombicosidodecahedron (Solar black)
2020
Stainless steel, glass, LED, Solar Black finish
Edition of 6
60 x 60 x 60 in
152.4 x 152.4 x 152.4 cm
Provenance
Artist’s studio
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Julian OPIE
(b. 1958)
Julian Opie is a Contemporary artist from London, England. He graduated from
Goldsmiths College of Art in 1982 where he trained under Michael Craig-Martin. His
instantly recognizable figurative artworks are a synthesis of the traditions of Minimalism
with Pop Art and Contemporary digital processes. One of Opie’s most notable
commissions was the design of an album cover for British Pop band Blur in 2000, for
which he received a Music Week CADS award. In 2006, he created an LED projection for
U2’s Vertigo world tour, and in 2008 Opie created a set design for Wayne McGregor’s
ballet INFRA for The Royal Opera House in London.
Opie has presented many public projects in cities around the world, notably in the
Dentsu Building in Tokyo, City Hall Park in New York, Mori Building, Omotesando Hill in
Tokyo, River Vltava in Prague, Phoenix Art Museum USA, Dublin City Gallery in Ireland,
Seoul Square in South Korea, Regent’s Place in London, Calgary, Canada, The Lindo
Wing, St Mary’s Hospital, London and more recently permanent installations at SMETS
in Belgium, PKZ in Zurich and Carnaby Street, London, UK.
His works are held in many major museum collections including the Arts Council of
England, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, The IVAM in Valencia, the MoMA in New
York, the MoMAT in Tokyo, The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Stedelijk
Museum in Amsterdam, the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the Tate Gallery
and Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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Mini skirt girl. 1.
2014
Vinyl on wooden stretcher
78.7 x 39.4 in
200 x 100 cm
Provenance
Artist’s studio
Private collection
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Ron ARAD
(b. 1951)
Ron Arad is an Israeli designer born in Tel Aviv in 1951. He studied at the Jerusalem
Art Academy and at the Architectural Association in London. After graduating, in 1981
he established his own design and production company “One-off” where he created
unique works by fusing together partially ready and ready-made pieces. A few years
later his company became Ron Associates Architecture and Design, and that is when
his carreer took a turn and he focused his time on developping new ides with welding,
beating steel, forging materials to form rigid and rough shapes, thus, the Big Easy chair
was created.
His objects are the result of a constant experimentation of raw materials such as steel,
aluminum or polyamide which he distorts into sinusoidal, elliptical and oval forms.
Alongside his studio work, Arad designs for many leading international companies
including Kartell, Vitra, Moroso, Fiam, Driade, Alessi, Cappellini, Cassina, WMF and Magis
amongst many others. He was also a Professor of Design Product at the Royal College
of Art in London from 1997 until 2009.
He was awarded the 2011 London Design Week Medal for design excellence and became
an Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2013. Ron Arad has designed a number
of public art pieces such as the Vortex in Seoul, and the Kesher Sculpture at the Tel Aviv
University.
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Big Easy
1988
Signed and numbered on the bottom right
Painted steel with stainless steel
Artist proof, edition of 5
51.2 x 39.4 x 35.4 in
130 x 100 x 90 cm
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Yves KLEIN
(1928-1962)
Yves Klein was one of the most important artists in Post-War European Art and a key
figure in the French artistic movement Nouveau Réalisme, which was founded in 1960
by the art critic Pierre Restany.
He was born in Nice to parents both painters Fred Klein and Marie Raymond. Autodidact,
Klein learned to paint on his living in an artisitc environment following him from Paris to
Nice.
Klein is known above all for his blue monochrome paintings, which were rendered in
International Klein Blue, a bright blue pigment that was to become the artist’s trademark,
under the appellation IKB. Even though he has always worked with blue during his
carreer, it is not until 1958 that he focused everything on it, and that the coulor he
created became an art of his own.
Influenced by Zen and other metaphysical philosophies, Klein believed his blue paintings
opened onto an immaterial and infinite space that was akin to a pure idea. As the
artist once famously said, “Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas
the other colors are not”. Klein’s style is also strongly inspired by the four elements of
nature: air, wind, fire, water that he lengthily discussed with his friends Claude Pascal and
Armand Fernandez.
Klein’s works have been exhibited in numerous museums and is part of important private
and public collections across the world.
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Table IKB®
2017
Blue pigment in glass, plexiglass and
chrome-plated metal
15 x 49.2 x 39.4 in
38 x 125 x 100 cm
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Table Monogold
2017
Gold leaf in glass, plexiglass and
chrome-plated metal
15 x 49.2 x 39.4 in
38 x 125 x 100 cm
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Table Monopink
2018
Pink pigment in glass, plexiglass and
chrome-plated metal
15 x 49.2 x 39.4 in
38 x 125 x 100 cm
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Fernando BOTERO
(b.1932)
Fernando Botero is one of the most prominent and celebrated Latin American artists
in the world. He was born in Medellín, Colombia, in 1932 and was only sixteen years old
when his drawings were first published in a popular local newspaper. In 1958, he rose to
national prominence when he won the first prize at the Salón de Artistas Colombianos,
and during the subsequent four decades, he achieved international recognition for his
contribution to Latin American art and culture.
His signature ‘Boterismo’ style, depicting figures with exaggerated volume in staged
scenarii, represents an acute social and political critique alongside the more prosaic
aspect of Colombian life. Recurrent themes address family life, religion, bullfight, and
circus culture, all filtered through his unique, darkly humorous lens. His art is included in
important private collections alongside numerous major museums collections. In 2012,
he was awarded the International Sculpture Center’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Standing Woman
1995
Signed, numbered and marked with foundry stamp
Bronze
Edition of 6
29.5 x 7.9 x 7.9 in
75 x 20 x 20 cm
Provenance
Artist’s studio
Private collection
Certificate
The artist confirmed the authenticity of this work
Litterature
Fernando Botero: Sculpture, Waddington Custot, London, 2019, no. 8, p46, ill.
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T. + 1 305 868 3337
miami@operagallery.com
BAL HARBOUR
The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort
9703 Collins Avenue, Lobby Floor
Miami Beach, FL 33154
T. + 1 305 861 9022
balharbour@operagallery.com
ASPEN
501 E Dean Street
Residences at the Little Nell
Aspen, CO 81611
T. + 1 970 710 7289
aspen@operagallery.com
LONDON
134 New Bond Street
London W1S 2TF
T. + 44 (0)20 7491 2999
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PARIS
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75008 Paris
T. + 33 (0)1 42 96 39 00
paris@operagallery.com
MONACO
1 avenue Henri Dunant
Palais de la Scala
98000 Monaco
T. + 377 9797 5424
monaco@operagallery.com
GENEVA
Place de Longemalle 10-12
1204 Geneva
T. + 41 (0)22 318 57 70
geneve@operagallery.com
DUBAI
Gate Village Building 3
Dubai International Financial Centre
Dubai
T. + 971 (0)4 323 0909
dubai@operagallery.com
Published by Opera Gallery to coincide with Salon-The
Intersection of Art + Design - Magazine November 2020.
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