FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON ANNOUNCES NEW EXHIBITIONS: HENRI MATISSE & ELLSWORTH KELLY

The Fondation Louis Vuitton stays true to their mission this summer: promoting the art of our time to the widest possible audience.  The Foundation is focused on the presentation of landmark works of modernity, but also artists who besides having a connection to the history of modernity, but also propose new models and disrupted perceptions.

The exhibition will be open from May 4 to September 9, 2024. a landmark exhibition dedicated to The Red Studio (1911) by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is being presented at the same time as a new retrospective of the work of Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) featuring paintings, sculptures, photographs and drawings. An addition to the exhibition is a collection with a selection of works that are related to sports – in honor of the Olympic Games in Paris this year. These works will offer an alternative and poetic vision of this international event.

The core of the exhibition features The Red Studio alongside the surviving six paintings, three sculptures and one ceramic depicted in it. Created between 1898 and 1911, these objects range from familiar paintings, such as Young Sailor (II) (1906) – which will be exhibited in France for the first time in 31 years – to lesser-known works, such as Corsica, The Old Mill (1898), and objects whose locations have only recently been discovered. Three of these paintings – Bathers (1907), Le Luxe (II) (1907-08), and Nude with a White Scarf (1909) – belong to SMK as part of a significant collection of Matisse’s works, while the artist’s 1907 ceramic plate, depicted in the foreground, comes from The Museum of Modern Art’s collection.

To celebrate the centenary of the artist’s birth, “Ellsworth Kelly. Shapes and Colors, 1949-2015” will be the first exhibition in France to offer a broad overview of the work of this significant artist of the second half of the 20th century – both in terms of its chronology and in terms of the media on display. Organized with Glenstone Museum (Potomac, Maryland) and in collaboration with the Ellsworth Kelly Studio, the exhibition brings together more than 100 works: paintings and sculptures as well as drawings, photographs and collages. The exhibition has been supported by loans from international institutions (the Art Institute of Chicago, Kröller-Müller Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate, Whitney Museum) as well as private collections.