Galerie Hadjer at Fine Arts Paris 2026
Grand Palais, Paris — Stand C21
September 19–23, 2026
For Fine Arts Paris 2026, Galerie Hadjer presents at the Grand Palais in Paris a curated selection of modern and post-war works by Pablo Picasso, Le Corbusier, Alexander Calder, Hans Hartung, and François-Xavier Lalanne. Bringing together modern tapestries, ceramics, and sculpture, the exhibition explores the remarkable dialogue between the great masters of 20th-century art and French craftsmanship.
At the heart of the presentation is an exceptionally rare textile work after Pablo Picasso’s Pipe (1918), conceived in collaboration with the pioneering collector and patron Marie Cuttoli and produced by Myrbor in Paris around 1928–1929. Among Picasso’s earliest experiments in translating his pictorial language into textile, the work marks the beginning of an important collaboration between the artist and Cuttoli, whose visionary projects played a decisive role in the development of modern tapestry.
Based on Picasso’s Cubist composition Pipe of 1918, the work translates the radical visual language of early 20th-century modernism into wool. Its fragmented geometry, construction of space, and subtle chromatic relationships acquire an entirely new material presence through weaving. Exhibited at Myrbor in Paris in 1929, the work stands as a rare testimony to the moment when the European avant-garde began to challenge the traditional boundaries between painting and the decorative arts.
This dialogue between modern art and textile continues throughout Galerie Hadjer’s presentation. Le Corbusierembraced tapestry as an architectural medium, famously developing the concept of the “mural nomad,” while Alexander Calder’s unmistakable vocabulary of movement, bold color, and abstract forms takes on a striking physical presence through the art of weaving.
A rare tapestry by Hans Hartung further demonstrates the expressive possibilities of the medium. Hartung’s gestural abstraction is transformed through the meticulous process of tapestry weaving, creating a compelling tension between the immediacy of the artist’s gesture and the precision of the loom.
The presentation extends beyond textile art with a selection of Pablo Picasso ceramics, reflecting another important chapter in the artist’s exploration of traditional craftsmanship through his work with the Madoura workshop in Vallauris. Also presented is François-Xavier Lalanne’s Petit Troupeau de moutons, an emblematic work in which sculpture, poetry, and functionality converge.
Through its presentation at Fine Arts Paris 2026, Galerie Hadjer highlights a defining chapter in the history of 20th-century modern tapestry, from the pioneering collaboration between Pablo Picasso and Marie Cuttoli to the textile works of Le Corbusier, Alexander Calder, and Hans Hartung.
Together with ceramics and sculpture, these works reveal how some of the most influential artists of the 20th century moved beyond conventional distinctions between fine and decorative arts, transforming historic techniques into powerful forms of modern artistic expression.
