Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary 2022

Zeit Contemporary Art is honored to participate in Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary 2022 with a carefully selected group of twentieth- and twenty-first-century works for collectors in Palm Beach and our friends and clients worldwide. The presentation opens with a dialogue between Joan Miró and Alexander Calder, two artists often brought into conversation during the 1930s, when both showed at Pierre Matisse Gallery. Calder’s lively gouache Dolmens is presented alongside works by Miró, including Femme, oiseaux, creating a vivid exchange of gesture, color, movement, and poetic abstraction. A second group celebrates spring through works by Paul Gauguin, Julio González, Ansel Adams, and Andy Warhol, each reflecting on nature as a source of joy, wonder, serenity, and spiritual resonance.

The presentation continues with a section devoted to Pop after Pop Art, beginning in the 1980s with works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, and Julian Opie. While Pop Art transformed the relationship between art, mass media, and everyday life in the 1960s, its legacy continued through new forms of stylization, icon-making, and cultural reflection. Warhol’s late Ad paintings and Lichtenstein’s American Indian Theme series revisit popular imagery from within the artists’ mature practices, while Haring’s Icons and Opie’s Caterina distill the figure into signs, contours, and instantly recognizable images. Together, these works trace the persistence of Pop’s visual intelligence across generations.

A further section brings Josef Albers and Robert Mangold into dialogue through their shared investigation of color, structure, and perception. Albers’s chromatic studies and Mangold’s reductive geometric forms challenge the viewer’s experience of image, ground, and spatial relation. The presentation concludes by juxtaposing early modern, postwar, and contemporary works, including major prints by Henri Matisse and Philip Guston, as well as works by Joaquín Torres-García and Oscar Murillo that explore abstraction across cultures, geographies, and historical moments. Across these sections, ZCA’s presentation reflects our continuing commitment to modern, postwar, and contemporary art, bringing together museum-quality examples of painting, photography, and printmaking.