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The work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, one of the most significant painters of the XNUMXth century, is displayed in four levels of the Frank Gehry building.

The exhibition covers, from 1980 to 1988, the entire career of the painter, focusing on more than 120 decisive works. Like the Heads  from 1981-1982, for the first time gathered here, or the presentation of several collaborations between Basquiat et Warhol, the exhibition includes sets never before seen in Europe, essential works such as Obnoxious Liberals (1982)  In Italian (1983) or Riding with Death (1988), and paintings rarely seen since their first presentations during the artist's lifetime, such as  Orange offensive  (1982) Untitled (Boxer)  (1982) and Untitled (Yellow Tar and Feathers)  (1982)

From childhood, Jean-Michel Basquiat leaves school and makes the streets of New York his first studio. Quickly, his painting will know a success both wanted and suffered. The exhibition affirms its dimension as a major artist who has radically renewed the practice of drawing and the concept of art. His practice of copy and paste paved the way for the fusion of the most diverse disciplines and ideas. It created new spaces for reflection and in doing so anticipated our Internet and post-Internet society and our current forms of communication and thought. The sharpness of his gaze, his frequentation of museums, the reading of numerous works gave him a real culture. But his gaze is focused: the absence of black artists appears painfully obvious; the artist then imposes himself to make exist, on an equal basis, African and Afro-American cultures and revolts in his work.

Egon Schiele

© Egon Schiele Self-portrait with peacock motif

The work of Egon Schiele is inseparable from the Viennese spirit of the early XNUMXth century. In a few years, his design has established itself as one of the heights of expressionism.

Breaking away from the Academy where he returned early, he founded the Neukunstgruppe in 1909 and, thanks to the Viennese Secession and Gustav Klimt, discover the work of Van Gogh, Munch ou Toorop.

From 1911, it is in a certain isolation that he focuses on his own production, fascinating by the distortion of the bodies he offers, introspection, the frontal expression of desire and the tragic feeling of life. . Mown down by the Spanish flu in 1918, the artist will have made in a decade some three hundred canvases and several thousand drawings.

Schiele's first monograph in Paris in twenty-five years, it offers works of the highest order, such as Self-portrait with Chinese lantern (1912) borrowed from Leopold Museum (Vienna), Pregnant and dead woman (mother and dead)  (1911) from the Národní gallery (Prague), Portrait of the artist's wife (Edith Schiele), holding her leg (1917) from the Morgan Library & Museum (New York), Female nude standing with blue fabric (1914) of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Male nude sitting seen from behind (1910), from the Neue Galerie New York or Autoportrait  (1912) of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.