Art Basel Paris

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Oct 22 – 26, 2025
Paris

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Art Basel Paris
Booth A30
Grand Palais
Oct 22 – 26, 2025

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Above: Installation view, Pace at Art Basel Paris, Booth A30, Oct 22 – 26, 2025

Pace is pleased to announce its booth highlights for Art Basel Paris 2025.

Pace’s presentation at the fair will be anchored by two early 20th century masterpieces: a 1918 Amedeo Modigliani painting and an important Pablo Picasso work on paper that was once a touchstone of Gertrude Stein’s collection.

The booth will also reflect Pace’s history as a champion of Minimalism, featuring works by key artists associated with the movement: Mary Corse, Lee Ufan, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, and Jiro Takamatsu.

Three small-scale sculptures by Alexander Calder, who will be the subject of an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York this fall to celebrate the centennial of Cirque Calder, which he began creating in 1926.

New and recent works by Yto Barrada, Nigel Cooke, Huong Dodinh, Torkwase Dyson, Pam Evelyn, Adrian Ghenie, Loie Hollowell, Alicja Kwade, Li Hei Di, Robert Longo, Robert Mangold, Kylie Manning, Mao Yan, Adam Pendleton, Lauren Quin, and Arlene Shechet will figure prominently in the presentation.

Arlene Shechet’s large-scale sculpture Dawn (2024)—which she debuted in her sprawling 2024 exhibition Girl Group at Storm King Art Center in New York—will be exhibited outdoors along the city’s Avenue Winston Churchill as part of the fair’s public program.

Highlights on Pace’s booth at Art Basel Paris include:

A widely-exhibited 1918 painting by Amedeo Modigliani, which figures in art historian and leading Modigliani scholar Marc Restellini’s definitive six-volume catalogue raisonné on the artist, set to be released in March 2026

Pablo Picasso’s Study for Nude with Drapery (1907), a work on paper that was once a beloved fixture of Gertrude Stein’s collection and prefigured the artist’s iconic painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Two small-scale sculptures created in 1958 and 1946 by Alexander Calder, whose dedicated museum Calder Gardens is now open in Philadelphia—and one of the artist’s most iconic works, Cirque Calder (1926–31), goes on view at the Whitney Museum in New York on October 18

Children Playing, a 1999 painting by Agnes Martin, whose work is included in the Bourse de Commerce’s upcoming exhibition Minimal, curated by Jessica Morgan, Director of the Dia Art Foundation

Works by Mary Corse, Lee Ufan, Robert Ryman, and Jiro Takamatsu—all of whom are also featured in the Bourse de Commerce’s Minimal show—presented in conversation with compositions by Huong Dodinh, Torkwase Dyson, Alicja Kwade, Robert Mangold, and Adam Pendleton

A vibrant new textile work by Yto Barrada, who will represent France at the Venice Biennale in 2026 and is currently the subject of a major solo exhibition on view at the South London Gallery through January 11, 2026

Three new ceramic sculptures by Arlene Shechet, whose large-scale painted aluminum composition Dawn (2024) will be on view on the Avenue Winston Churchill, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, as part of the fair’s public program

New paintings created this year by Nigel Cooke, Pam Evelyn, Adrian Ghenie, Li Hei Di, Kylie Manning, Mao Yan, Lauren Quin, and a vibrant, new pastel drawing by Loie Hollowell

Tassa vermella, a 1984 painting by Antoni Tàpies, who will be the subject of a solo exhibition opening in November at Pace’s New York gallery

A new charcoal drawing by Robert Longo, whose monumental exhibition The Weight of History is on view at Pace in New York through October 25

Our Artists in Paris

Arlene Shechet

Dawn, 2024

Oct 21 – 26
Art Basel Paris
Avenue Winston Churchill
Paris, France

Pace is pleased to present Dawn (2024), a monumental sculpture by Arlene Shechet, to be installed in the heart of Paris on Avenue Winston Churchill—directly between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais—in collaboration with Art Basel Paris (October 20–27). Reminiscent of an unfurling flower, Dawn is composed of aluminum sheets painted in matte peach and glossy pink, interspersed six large-scale sculptures that comprised Shechet’s acclaimed Girl Group installation at Storm King Art Center (2024) and will be situated along the avenue, flanked by the Pont Alexandre III and the Hôtel des Invalides on one side and the Champs-Élysées on the other, offering a tactile, expressive counterpoint to Paris’s historical architecture.

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Featured Works

Pablo Picasso

b. 1881, Malaga, Spain
d. 1973, Mougins, France

Study for Nude with Drapery (1907) exemplifies Pablo Picasso’s intention to formally break with the norms of the Western artistic tradition. Here, Picasso depicts a standing nude figure pulling aside a loosely sketched curtain, her body rendered as a series of cylinders and ovals. Uneven hatch marks suggest shadow and volume, and although the stance references a classical contrapposto pose—weight shifted onto one hip—the form itself resists anatomical accuracy. Beginning in 1907, Picasso moved away from the idea of the canvas as a window into the world, instead emphasizing the inherent flatness of the picture plane. He experimented with geometry and line, distilling forms into simple shapes while illustrating multiple perspectives early signs of Picasso’s growing interest in African art, particularly following his March 1907 visit to the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro, Paris. Features drawn from African masks—elongated noses, pointed oval faces, and deeply shadowed contours—became integral to his visual vocabulary. Picasso revisited and transformed the present figure in his seminal work Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, completed later that same year. The second figure from the left in Demoiselles presents a fully realized reinterpretation of the Study, rotated to face the viewer. This drawing not only reflects his interest in African art but also signals the formal experimentation with perspective that would ultimately lead to the development of Cubism.

In 1907, American art collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein acquired Picasso’s notebook containing the current work, disassembling it and mounting selected drawings on canvas. Study for Nude with Drapery is visible in several photographs from the period, including a 1920 portrait of Gertrude Stein by Man Ray.

Agnes Martin

b. 1912, Macklin, Saskatchewan, Canada
d. 2004, Taos, New Mexico

Antoni Tàpies

b. 1923, Barcelona
d. 2012, Barcelona

Robert Mangold

b. 1937, North Tonawanda, NY

Mary Corse

b. 1945, Berkeley, California

Jiro Takamatsu

b. 1936, Tokyo
d. 1998, Tokyo

Adrian Ghenie

b. 1977, Baia Mare, Romania

Adrian Ghenie’s new painting The Spanish Room 2 (2025) continues his examination of museumgoers’ varied interactions with art. The swirling, chaotic work depicts two humanoid figures holding small red hammers before a painting, referencing a protest by Just Stop Oil activists. On November 3, 2023, two members of the group cracked the glass on Spanish painter Diego Velázquez’s masterpiece The Toilet of Venus (1647–51), widely referred to as The Rokeby Venus, at London’s National Gallery of Art. This act by Just Stop Oil—a group that objects to the British government extending new permits to produce fossil fuels—was itself a direct reference to British suffrage campaigner Mary Richardson, who in 1914 attacked the same canvas with a meat cleaver to protest the arrest of suffrage leader Emeline Pankhurst. Echoing the suffragist slogan, the 2023 activists declared, “Women did not get the vote by voting. It is time for deeds, not words.” Old Masters are a recurring touchstone for Ghenie; in this new painting, he contributes to the layered conversation around Velazquez’s work in his own unsettling, expressionistic style.