Berggruen Summer Shop
June 15 — October 1, 2023
Berggruen Summer Shop
Berggruen Gallery is proud to present the Berggruen Summer Shop, a unique opportunity to acquire rare books, posters, fine art editions, and other collectibles.
The Summer Shop is now EXTENDED until October 1, 2023.
Please view the publications page on our website for active discounts. Select books, posters, and fine art prints only available in-store.
Wayne Thiebaud: Paintings and Works on Paper highlights some of Thiebaud’s most significant work from throughout his sixty year career. Many of the works in the exhibition have been in private collections and have rarely been exhibited. The exhibition consisted of approximately thirty examples of Thiebaud’s oeuvre, including a number of quintessential dessert and object still life works, as well as several paintings of the Sacramento delta and San Francisco cityscapes, spanning from the early 1960s through the late 2000s. The works included in this exhibition represent the qualities for which Thiebaud is most known-his use of heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows that are characteristic of advertisements. All of the works included in the exhibition are reproduced in the catalogue.
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Helen Frankenthaler: Paintings spotlights 20 of Frankenthaler's most revolutionary and distinctive works from her solo show at Berggruen Gallery in 2019. The exhibition marked both the upcoming 50th Anniversary of the Gallery gallery’s opening and the 47th Anniversary of Frankenthaler's first West Coast Exhibition, at John Berggruen Gallery in 1972. The exhibition, and works reproduced in the catalogue, follow the evolution of Frankenthaler's unique and pioneering art practice. As the creator and master of the soak-stained canvas Frankenthaler pushed the boundaries of Abstract Expressionism and allowed room for ethereal light, seamless movement, and the celebration of color. Her works are playful, raw and seem to transcend our worldly environment. The catalogue also includes an essay by renowned Art historian and Stanford Professor Alexander Nemerov on the early life and complex career of Frankenthaler.
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The Human Form, published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title and the inaugural opening of the gallery in its new location at 10 Hawthorne Street, features an introductory essay, "Figuring Figures," by Dr. Steven A. Nash, formerly The JoAnn McGrath Executive Director of the Palm Springs Art Museum (2007-2015); the founding Director of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas (2001-2007); the Associate Director and Chief Curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (1988-2001); the Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Dallas Museum of Art (1980-88); and the Research Curator and Chief Curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo (1973-80). The catalogue also includes 50 color plates by 38 artists, including such modern masters as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Diebenkorn, and Wayne Thiebaud; as well as contemporary artists Gerhard Richter, Cecily Brown, George Condo, Kiki Smith, Antony Gormley, Jenny Saville, and Kehinde Wiley.
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A maker of stained glass, tapestries, and paintings in a variety of media, Mark Adams is an unusually versatile artist. His masterful use of color, evident in everything he does, is astonishing in its power to communicate. Adams endows his seemingly representational subjects with unexpected qualities, and the works convey his excitement about the world of everyday objects and settings. “The important thing,” he has said, “is to create something in the work that relates to people.”
Lorna Price’s insightful essay gives light to the broad range of Adams’s work, guiding readers through its rich ambiguities and paradoxes. Her observations explore the artist’s idiosyncratic treatment of light, shadow, and reflection, and trace the progression of his movement from watercolor to acrylics to oil. Illustrated with seventy full-color images, Mark Adams: A Way with Color presents an impressive body of Adams work.
Co-published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco and John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco: 1995.
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Mark Adams
Peaches in Silver Bowl, 1993
Color lithograph
Image: 27 1/2 x 33 1/4 inches
Sheet: 32 x 37 1/2 inches
Framed: 36 x 41 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches
Edition of 150
Mark Adams
Toe Shoes, 1993
Colored etching
Plate: 13 x 15 inches
Sheet: 22 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches
Edition of 100
Mark Adams
Folded Flag, 1994
18 color lithograph
Image: 22 1/2 x 28 inches
Sheet: 29 3/8 x 34 1/4 inches
Edition of 100
Poster from 2022 Berggruen Gallery exhibition Drawing with Scissors: Contemporary Works in Conversation with Matisse's Jazz. This group exhibition recognized Henri Matisse’s 1947 groundbreaking series of twenty pochoir prints, Jazz, and the significant impact Matisse's work from this period has had on myriad contemporary artists.
Price: $35
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Dimensions: 24 x 16 inches (60.96 x 40.64 cm)
© Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
All rights reserved. No part of the contents of this poster may be reproduced without specific written permission of Berggruen Gallery.
Artwork © 2022 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Poster from 2013 Berggruen Gallery exhibition, Selected Small Works (ran concurrently with DiSuvero at Crissy Fields).
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Dimensions: 20 3/4 x 14 1/2 inches
© Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
All rights reserved. No part of the contents of this poster may be reproduced without specific written permission of Berggruen Gallery.
