MASTERPIECE
online 24 to 27 june 2021
LONDON
Opera Gallery is pleased to participate in the online edition of the 2021 Masterpiece London and to
present works by leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. From Modern artists and innovators
of postwar art – including Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Karel Appel
to contemporary artists such as Pierre Soulages, Fernando Botero, Sam Francis, Keith Haring, Manolo
Valdés, Mel Bochner, Julian Opie and Kenny Scharf, the viewing room showcases an exceptional
selection of paintings, works on paper and sculptures bridging contrasting approaches and styles.
Marc Chagall
Bouquet Printanier dans l’Atelier de Saint-Paul1970
Oil and gouache on canvas
112 x 84 cm
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing
Andre Brasilier
Cavalcade dans les vagues2020
Oil on canvas
89 x 130 cm
Andre Brasilier
Escale sous la neige à Loupeigne2017
Oil on canvas
130 x 81 cm
Horses have always been a model for me, they represent life and freedom.
Fernando Botero
Woman on a horse2010
Bronze
120 x 80 x 56 cm
Fernando Botero
Couple Drinking2011
Pencil and watercolor on canvas
98 x 132 cm
Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life
Manolo Valdes
Amarillo y Rojo2020
Oil on burlap
165.1 x 139.7 cm
Manolo Valdes
Infanta Margarita2018
Bronze
130 x 107 cm
Art of each era always gathers elements from the past; Art is a succession and an
eternal
addition.
Karel Appel
Untitled1956
Oil on canvas
65 x 50 cm
If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age
Jean Dubuffet
Site aléatoire avec un personnage1982
Acrylic and collage on paper mounted on canvas
67 x 100 cm
Jean Dubuffet
Elément bleu XII1957
Transfer on polyester resin
200 x 96 x 10 cm
Art should be born from the materials.
Alexander Calder
Double Humpbacked Crinkly1970
Sheet metal, wire and paint
45.7 x 110.5 x 86.4 cm
The basis of everything I do is the universe.
A.R. Penck
Untitled1990
Ink and wax crayon on paper
150 x 200 cm
“Everything is paradox and schizophrenic, flat and magnificent, extremely reactionary and very progressive, decadent and fascistic. And so am I! And so are you!”
Hermann Nitsch
15_202020
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 300 cm
Hermann Nitsch
HF_05_202020
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 150 cm
I never was interested to make provocation. I want to show intensity. And let’s say,
maybe
in intensity is a kind of provocation, but for me it always is important to show life
and to
celebrate life.
Sam Francis
Untitled1987
Acrylic on canvas
122.2 x 91.4 cm
Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
Kenny Scharf
Botox Jungle2004
Oil, acrylic, silkscreen on canvas with artist frame
294.6 x 228.6 cm
Kenny Scharf
Headblox2016
Oil on canvas
304.8 x. 228.6 cm
Part of what I do and what I want to do is I want to bring art into the everyday life.
If
you can take ordinary just walking in the street and you're confronted by something,
that
might change your day - it might inspire you.
Mel Bochner
Mistake2019
Monoprint with engraving and embossment on Twinrocker paper
127 x 168.3 cm
In my paintings on velvet, the paint is delivered indirectly to the surface. First, a computer-controlled laser engraves the text into an acrylic sheet, which will serve as a printing matrix. Then, letter-by-letter, the words are hand-filled with pure oil paint, sometimes up to a pound per letter. Finally, the velvet is laid face down on the plate, placed in a hydraulic press, and subjected to 750 tons of vertical pressure. The text, like life, bleeds out to the edge of the frame, leaving us with nowhere to go except in.
Julian Opie
Charles, Justina2018
Silkscreen on painted wooden board
101 x 63 cm
Julian Opie
Kris and Verity Walking 22010
Vinyl on metal stretcher
222 x 137.9 x 3.5 cm
I sometimes think about a shadow. If you look at someone's shadow, you can see their character or what mood they're in
