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Landmark exhibition of Picasso Vallauris Era works opens January 15th – March 15th.

PALM BEACH, FL / ACCESS Newswire / January 9, 2026 / Kahan Gallery is pleased to announce Picasso: Clay, Line, and Legacy in collaboration with Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens in West Palm Beach.

Immediately following the end of the Second World War, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) began spending increasing amounts of time in the south of France. There, among the sunny villages and quiet coastlines, the artist met collaborators who influenced the production of an innovative and bold chapter in his artistic legacy. This late period, from 1946 until the artist’s death, was defined by transformative ceramic works, painted and engraved in the same inventive manner as his powerful linocuts. These works would come to represent some of the most intriguing and profound aspects of the artist’s final decades.

Working daily between the Madoura pottery studio and the workshop of printmaker Hidalgo Arnéra, Picasso composed ceramic forms and linoleum blocks into new areas of modernist imagination. This exhibition invites viewers to look closely at over 60 artworks representative of Picasso’s renaissance in Vallauris, presented alongside selected prints, drawings, and tapestries from earlier periods, to reveal the extraordinary continuity of his subjects and technical collaborations over three decades.

“We are delighted to introduce this significant exhibition spotlighting Picasso’s Vallauris period,” said Terri Kahan. “The Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, with its distinguished history as a sanctuary for modern sculpture and the environment, serves as an exceptional partner. Their unique setting and Ann Norton’s artistic commitment to working in earthy, natural materials makes them the perfect venue to highlight these remarkable works from Picasso’s Vallauris years.”

Kahan Gallery, a leader in Modern, Post-War, and Contemporary Art since 1973, maintains spaces in New York City and Palm Beach, Florida. The gallery is renowned for its expertise in Modern Master prints, drawings, Picasso ceramics, and 20th-century fine art tapestries. A member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA), the gallery has curated museum-quality collections for institutions and private collectors around the globe. For further details on Picasso: Clay, Line, and Legacy, visit kahangallery.net or call 212-744-1490.

The Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens is a non-profit foundation established in 1977 by the acclaimed sculptor Ann Weaver Norton (1905-1982). This two-acre urban oasis and internationally acclaimed arboretum encompasses the historic Norton House and Artist Studio, exhibition galleries, monumental sculptures, a Pollinator Garden, historic Orchid House Plaza, and lush gardens featuring more than 250 species of rare palms and cycads.

Located at 253 Barcelona Road in West Palm Beach, the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens is open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens is accessible to visitors with mobility needs. For additional details, visit ansg.org or call 561-832-5328.

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Kahan Gallery, 922 Madison Avenue, New York

MANHATTAN, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 7, 2025 / Kahan Gallery is pleased to announce Calder & Miró: Prints and Drawings, 1967-1976, the next exhibition at the 922 Madison Avenue gallery in New York, opening October 9th.

The exhibition will present a focused group of prints and gouaches by Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and Joan Miró (1893-1983) from their later years, when they turned with renewed intensity to their practice on paper. These works reflect the spontaneous working methods, expansive horizons and elemental forms, often serially conceived, now considered emblematic of each artist’s late style.

In 1968, speaking to writer Paul Waldo Schwartz, Calder stated: “Miró is my favorite painter along with Matisse, yes and Klee…the archeologists will tell you there’s a little bit of Miró in Calder and a little bit of Calder in Miró.” After Calder’s passing, Miró wrote: “For a century, Sandy [Calder] was a great friend of mine. Sandy, my old Sandy, with an open heart, wide open…Catalonia and Spain have lost a great companion, and the world a courageous beacon that gave us new hopes.”

Recognized for their achievements in painting and sculpture, Calder and Miró continued working on paper into the 1960s and 1970s. This practice led to the design and conception of projects with collaborators in diverse mediums, reinforcing their lasting contributions to fine and decorative art. Miró’s biographer Jacques Dupin identified this creative experimentation arising from the desire, “to go beyond painting.” As noted in 2004 by historian Catherine Craft, “the dissatisfaction with the limitations of their respective métiers took many other forms, few of which are actually considered,” outside of presentations centered on their institutionally celebrated works.

Calder & Mirówill include primary market prints and gouaches that will be exhibited for the first time in nearly sixty years. Exploring allegory, metamorphoses, and prophecy, both artists created some of their most numinous works on paper during this period.

The exhibition will present a complete set of Joan Miró’s six vertical format lithographs The Seers (1970), and select prints by Alexander Calder from the series The Elementary Memory (1976). Large-scale etchings and aquatints by Miró set in nocturnal atmospheres such as The Sleep-Walker (1974) will be shown with Calder’s nebulous and marine-like gouache Sea-star (1969).

Over twenty prints, gouaches, illustrated books and a tapestry will be on view. Etched, inked, and stained, the works reveal the artists’ shared sources of inspiration and convergent methods, approaching new concepts with spirited invention.

Calder & Miró: Prints and Drawings, 1967-1976, is on view at 922 Madison Avenue from October 9, 2025 through January 24, 2026. The exhibition is located on the second floor and is accessible by stairs.

For additional information, please call 212-744-1490 or email info@kahangallery.net

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