Jane Kahan Gallery will exhibit at the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair in Caliornia over President’s Day Weekend.
Please stop by booth #601 to see our special selection of Modern Master Aubusson tapestries, ceramics, and number of important paintings.

Palm Springs Fine Art Fair-Booth 601
Palm Springs Convention Center 277 N Avenida Caballeros
Palm Springs CA 92262

Opening Night Preview (invitation only): 
Thursday, Feb 12: 7:30-9:30pm

Regular Fair Hours:

Friday, Feb 13: 11am-7pm

Saturday, Feb 14: 11am-7pm

Sunday, Feb 15: 11am-6pm

For complimentary day passes, please notify us here.

PRESS: ARTNET NEWS | “Spotlight on Palm Springs Fine Art Fair 2014“

NEW YORK – New York gallerist Jane Kahan has commissioned world-renowned Islamic artist Ahmed Moustafa to create an important new Aubusson tapestry.

“Frolicking Horses” will make its debut at ART ANTIQUES LONDON, which will return for its third year to a specially built pavilion across from the Royal Albert Hall June 13 – 20^th, 2012.

Ahmed Moustafa is a unique artist who bridges numerous different worlds.  Born in Alexandria, Egypt, he studied classical painting and design techniques before Islamic calligraphy inspired him to a new – yet traditional and timeless – vision.

Moustafa’s works were presented as the first exhibition by a Muslim artist in the Vatican and appear in numerous museum collections including the British Museum, London; the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; and the Museum of Modern Arts, Alexandria.  Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II presented a specially commissioned composition by Ahmed Moustafa as a gift to Pakistan to mark the occasion of that nation’s 50th anniversary.  A related tapestry by Ahmed Moustafa hangs in the Museum of Tapestry, Aubusson, the premier museum of its type in the world.

The Jane Kahan Gallery was established in 1973 and still occupies its original space on Madison Avenue in New York.  Specializing in all forms of Modern Art, it has become internationally known in recent years for its collection of rare modern tapestries by such masters as Picasso, Miro, Chagall, Leger, Calder and many others.

Since both Jane Kahan and Ahmed Moustafa have had long associations with the Pinton tapestry atelier in Felletin, France, a tapestry collaboration seemed a natural progression.  Moustafa’s tapestries, woven by Pinton, already grace public spaces in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Luxembourg.

“Ahmed Moustafa has been deeply influenced by his Islamic heritage, but like many world-class artists his vision transcends mere labels,” says gallerist Jane Kahan. “In his art can be found not only the deepest spirituality, but the universal power of culture, understanding and beauty.  To me he is simply a great artist whose work has earned its place to hang alongside that of Chagall, Picasso and the other great artists who have expressed themselves in tapestry.”

For the second year, the Jane Kahan Gallery exhibited at ART ANTIQUES LONDON.  This artfair, held in a custom-built pavilion on the site of the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, brings together some of the top dealers and the most discriminating collectors in the world. This year Jane Kahan and gallery director Charles Mathes presented modern tapestries and ceramics by Picasso, Chagall, paintings by Jean Dufy and Istvan Sandorfi, goauches by Arlene Graston and other masterworks.

A rare Jean Dubuffet fine art carpet is featured in the exhibition GLORIA F. ROSS: Rebirth of Modern Tapestry, Febuary 15 – March 25, 2011 at Jane Kahan Fine Art.

“Tapis No. 2” was a collaboration that brought together some of the leading forces in the 20^th century art, design, and decorative worlds: Jean Dubuffet, the modern artist; Gloria Ross, the tapestry éditeur; Pace Gallery, and the Edward Fields carpet company.

Jean Dubuffet played an essential role in the postwar literary and artistic avant-garde art scene, both in his native France and worldwide.  With works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Pompidou, among many others, Dubuffet is considered a master of the modern art world with his vast, eclectic oeuvre and rebellious approach to art.  He believed in taking art off of the canvas, and experimented in virtually every medium.  Major retrospectives of Dubuffet’s works have been held at numerous major museums, including the Guggenheim and Museum of Modern Art in New York, London’s Tate Gallery, and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

Dubuffet worked in “cycles,” exploring a style, theme, or image extensively until moving on to his next source of inspiration. “Tapis No. 2” was produced during his “Hourloupe” period, one of his longest cycles, spanning over 12 years.  It is characterized by the use of the emotionless colors of red, white, and blue, punctuated with black lines.  It embodies many of Dubuffet’s strongest ideals about art: his concern with two-dimensionality, a sense of commonality and the mundane, and the creation of work that derives from the subconscious, free from cluttered thoughts and oppressive cultural or societal ideals that can impede artistic expression.

Gloria Ross, the second collaborator on this rare and monumental piece, was instrumental in the revival of Aubusson tapestry making.  She brought together famous artists and Aubusson weavers, and under her guidance hundreds of modern master tapestries came to fruition.  In a few exceptional cases, Ross also collaborated with artists and carpet makers to create modern works in that medium; Dubuffet is the most well known among that small group of artists who created carpets with Ross.

“Tapis No. 2” was made by the Edward Fields company, carpet makers who are perhaps the most well-known in the design industry.   Established in 1935, Fields has garnered an outstanding reputation for fine craftsmanship, quality, and beauty.   They are synonymous with both the decorative and the artistic, combining a craftsman-like sensibility in the tufting process with an artistic eye for splendor and uniqueness.  Edward Fields carpets appear in many important sites, including the White House and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House.

The carpet was published by Pace Editions in New York.  Pace was Dubuffet’s art dealer and one of the foremost contemporary galleries of the 20^th Century.  Another carpet from this edition was part of the IBM corporation art collection.