A tribute to Gasiorowski

From February to June 2026, the Fondation Marguerite and Aimé Maeght will pay tribute to Gérard Gasiorowski (1930–1986), French painter and photographer, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his death.

The Fondation will present ten works from its permanent collection, including Hommage à Manet (1983), a ten-metre-long painting, Les Avertisseurs, Ida, Cossom’s, Croûte – Arc de Triomphe, as well as smaller-scale works such as La Ruelle, Le Village, and Les Étendues, which revisits Giacometti’s motif of L’Homme qui marche (Walking Man). Among these works, ten were donated by Adrien Maeght, Gasiorowski’s close collaborator at the Galerie Maeght, where the artist held his first exhibition in 1982—just as he did in life.

Gasiorowski is particularly remembered for his retrospective at the ARC – Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1983, for the 1995 exhibition at the Centre Pompidou curated by Jean de Loisy, and for the exhibition held at the Fondation Maeght in 2012, entitled Vous êtes fou Gasiorowski, il faut vous ressaisir… (“You are mad, Gasiorowski, you must pull yourself together…”). He is also remembered for his major series—Les Fleurs (Flowers), Les Chapeaux (Hats), Les Amalgames, Les Croûtes—and for his irreverent wit.