Galerie Canesso

Tableaux anciens

Jacopo dal Ponte, called Bassano

Bassano del Grappa, c. 1510 - 1592 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Jacob’s Journey Oil on canvas, 62.5 × 96 cm (24 ⁵⁄₈ × 37 ¹³⁄₁₆ in)

Provenance

Most probably Genoa, Durazzo Pallavicini Negrotto Cambiaso collection; Cologne, Fastenrath collection, donated in 1925 to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (inv. 699),

which sold it in February 1943; Cologne, Van Ham sale, 17-19 November 2005, lot 1514;

private collection.

26, rue Laffitte • 75009 Paris • Tel. + 33 1 40 22 61 71 • Fax + 33 1 40 22 61 81 • e-mail : contact @ canesso.com www.canesso.com Cover Detail of Gelbgrün (Yellowgreen), 1982 Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) Oil on canvas, 260400cm Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden See Mark Godfrey’s article on pp. 52–57

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PAD Cover Jean Prouvé photographed at his house in Nancy in 1963, seated in his Cité armchair. © Fonds Cardot-Joly, Centre Pompidou See Edwin Heathcote’s article on pp. 40–44

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CONTENTS OCTOBER 2011 VOLUME CLXXIV NO. 591

The InTernaTIernaTIernaonal arT MagazIne gerhard richter’s abstraction | norman Foster and Jean Prouvé ed ruscha on the los angeles art Scene | Charlotte Perriand’s Photography

The Modern

ISSue

Michael govan on Pacific Standard Time | george Condo’s Take on old Masters

The InTernaTIernaTIernaonal arT MagazIne gerhard richter’s abstraction | norman foster and Jean prouvé ed ruscha on the los angeles art Scene | charlotte perriand’s photography

SpecIal paD SubScrIpTIon offer InSIDe

Michael govan on pacific Standard Time | george condo’s Take on old Masters

23 Editor’s Letter The design of today – tomorrow 24 Agenda What’s on around the world in October

Features 32 Capital Design Edwin Heathcote picks the highlights of London’s Pavilion of Art & Design 40 Masters of Precision Norman Foster and his wife Elena talk to Edwin Heathcote about the exhibition of works by Jean Prouvé they have staged in Madrid 46 The Nature of Seeing Jacques Barsac on the thinking that informed the photography of designer Charlotte Perriand 52 Blurring Boundaries Mark Godfrey assesses the abstraction of Gerhard Richter, the subject of a new retrospective at Tate Modern, London 58 Art and the American Dream Michael Govan, CEO of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, talks to Sue Hubbard about the Pacific Standard Time project in Southern California 62 From Ruscha With Love The artist Ed Ruscha talks about the role Los Angeles has played in his art to Jonathan Griffin 68 A Painterly Language George Condo talks to Ben Luke about the ways in which his paintings are a response to Old Master works

Ed Ruscha: pp. 62–66

OCTOBER 2011 APOLLO 17