West, London
Group Exhibition
Petits Bijoux
Nahmad ProjectsGeorges Braque, Alexander Calder, César Baldaccini, Giorgio de Chirico, Christo, Joseph Cornell, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Eugène Delacroix, Max Ernst, Jean Fautrier, Lucio Fontana, Juan Gris, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Marie Laurencin, Henri Laurens, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Giorgio Morandi, Gustave Moreau, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Egon Schiele, Kurt Schwitters, Yves Tanguy, Antoni Tàpies, Joaquín Torres García Helly Nahmad Gallery at Nahmad Projects is pleased to present Petits Bijoux, a gathering of small artworks by modern masters spanning a century of periods and practices - proposing scale not as a limitation, but as an invitation to look closely. In a world with a seemingly endless appetite for the grand, this exhibition subverts traditional thinking, celebrating intimacy, precision, and sensitivity. Akin to a jeweller’s loupe, the exhibition encourages a form of close looking that magnifies nuance rather than size. Surfaces, textures, and gestures reveal themselves slowly: the grain of the canvas, the pressure of a line, the accumulation of pigment. In these smaller formats, material beauty becomes heightened, and the act of making remains palpably present. Arranged in thematic constellations, the works foster quiet enchantment through precise craft. A Braque guitar and a Morandi bottle speak to the simple poetry of everyday life; a Corot and Matisse nude probe the possibilities of the human body; Kandinsky’s spiritual geometries and Tanguy’s liminal spaces cultivate a tangible psyche. Small scale becomes a lens through which perception is sharpened, material presence amplified, and art revealed at its most intimate and alive. Collectively, the works trace subtle continuities across time, allowing affinities of subject and tone to emerge beyond stylistic or chronological distinction. Freed from monumentality, they favour concentration over spectacle and proximity over distance - together, these little jewels assert the enduring power of small-scale artworks.