"Thirty years ago, Larry Gagosian mounted an exhibition of oil paintings and sketches by Peter Paul Rubens in his New York gallery-an unprecedented move for a commercial contemporary art enterprise. Back then, the mega dealer saw parallels between the Baroque artist and Robert Rauschenberg as well as Andy Warhol, whose portraits of movie icons from the 1960s reminded Gagosian of Rubens's royal court paintings."
"The gallery declined to give the price on the Rubens, which is a relatively recently rediscovered depiction of the holy family-but the painting was traded publicly in 2020, selling at Sotheby's in New York for $7.1m. A comparable example is held in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection in Madrid. Art Basel has granted Gagosian special permission to show the work, painted hundreds of years before its usual 1900 cut-off point."
"As the director of Gagosian's Paris gallery Serena Cattaneo Adorno puts it: "When such juxtapositions are made, there must be a real curatorial purpose-it's not about mixing the old with the new or contemporary for purely speculative reasons. We aim to convey a cultural message. Art Basel Paris allows for this kind of presentation because collectors coming to Paris are extremely knowledgeab"
Thirty years ago Larry Gagosian mounted an exhibition of oil paintings and sketches by Peter Paul Rubens in his New York gallery, an unprecedented move for a commercial contemporary gallery. Gagosian sees parallels between Rubens and artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. At Art Basel Paris Gagosian is showing The Virgin and Christ Child (c.1611–14) alongside works by John Currin, Jadé Fadojutimi, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso and Auguste Rodin. The Rubens was publicly sold at Sotheby's New York in 2020 for $7.1m. Art Basel granted special permission to exhibit the pre-1900 Rubens so it could be presented in dialogue with modern and contemporary artists. The gallery stresses a real curatorial purpose and a cultural message for such juxtapositions.
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