At home in Brussels, gallerist Almine Rech combines picassos with contemporary works to intoxicating effect. Christopher Bagley takes it all in.
Pablo Picasso’s Chalk on Blackboard, 1963.
Rech, at home in Brussels, 2012, wearing her own Miu Miu dress, standing in front of Jeff Koons’s Seal Walrus Trashcans, 2003.
Anselm Reyle’s Untitled, 2008.
From left; Martin Kippenberger’s Untitled (from the series “Jacqueline: The Paintings Pablo Couldn’t Paint Anymore”), 1996; Alexander Rodchenko’s Untitled Composition (from the series “Linearism”), 1919; Franz West’s Untitled, 2007; Gerhard Richter’s Dickicht 903-5, 2007.
Pablo Picasso’s Little Horse Toy, 1960.
Ruiz-Picasso and Rech at their wedding, 2000.
From left: Frank Stella’s Mogielnica IV (Polish Village Series No. 20), 1972; Ugo Rondinone’s No. 349 – Dreiundzwanzigsterjanuarzweitausendundfuenf, 2005.
Ugo Rondinone’s Sunrise. East. March, 2005.
Olga Ruiz-Picasso’s armchair.
Jeff Koons’s Antiquity 3, 2009–2011.