EDWARD TYLER NAHEM FINE ART TO EXHIBIT BASQUIAT, CALDER, CHAMBERLAIN, DIEBENKORN, FRANCIS, GUSTON, KOONS, MILHAZES, MITCHELL, OEHLEN, POLLOCK, RAUSCHENBERG, RUSCHA, WARHOL, WOOL AND WESSELMANN AT ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH

 Jeff Koons’s Unique Mirror-Polished Smooth Egg to be Highlighted at Art Fair

December 6-9, 2018

Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art (ETNFA), will present an exhibition of sculpture and paintings by artists Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Ed Ruscha among others at Art Basel Miami Beach 2018. Koons’s Smooth Egg with Bow (Magenta/Orange), 1994-2009, Warhol’s Bald Eagle, 1983 and Wesselmann’s Sunset Nude with Wesselmann, 2003, are some of the works exhibited from December 6th to December 9th in the gallery’s stand, E-4.

“We are very excited about our stand at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach,” said Edward Tyler Nahem, long time exhibitor and founder of the eponymous gallery.  “We expect that the Koons Egg will be quite the head-turner for the public, as will the other works we plan to show.”

Standing at nearly seven feet high, Jeff Koons’s Smooth Egg with Bow (Magenta/Orange), 1994-2009 is an exceptional sculpture from the artist’s most lauded body of work, the Celebration series. Over a decade in the making, the works in the Celebration series handsomely realize Koons’s demanding and dreamlike vision, culminating in the celestial sheen of Smooth Egg with Bow (Magenta/Orange)’s impeccable surface, generous scale, and boundless wealth of color.

Tom Wesselmann’s Sunset Nude with Wesselmann, 2003, is a dynamic composition rendered in brilliant reds, blues, and yellows. Its bold forms draw inspiration from Manet’s courtesans and Matisse’s reclining odalisques. The white and beige outline of a nude sits behind a languid model in the foreground of the picture; acting as the ever-present specter of the archetypal odalisque which constitutes the most pervasive theme throughout Wesselmann’s extensive oeuvre.

Andy Warhol’s Bald Eagle, 1983, is an imposing example of Warhol’s most conceptually nuanced subject in his Endangered Species series, composed of portraits of ten endangered species from around the world. The American Bald Eagle portraits stand apart from the rest of the series as they draw attention to the species dwindling numbers, while simultaneously continuing Warhol’s interest in reproducing America’s most iconic societal and commercial images in a pop art context. From the presidential seal to the national currency, the Bald Eagle is one of the most pervasive images in American culture which, like his Campbell’s Soup Can paintings, Warhol appropriates and enlarges; drawing the viewers’ attention to its immense significance and any complications or contradictions found therein. 

Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, LLC was founded in New York in 1985. The gallery specializes in Modern, Post-War and Contemporary masters. In addition to presenting its monographic and thematic programming at its space on 57th Street in Manhattan, the gallery also brings its dynamic program to important art fairs world-wide, including Art Basel, Switzerland, Art Basel Miami Beach, TEFAF New York, FIAC Paris and ARCO Madrid.