The artist Françoise Gilot (1921–2023) repeatedly advised against retrospective thinking, particularly if that exercise results in pangs of regret. Such proclamations should typically be met with skepticism: it is difficult to imagine an eye that never turns, a mind that never roams.
Drawn from a singular collection, the Rosenberg & Co. exhibition is the first solo presentation of Françoise Gilot’s work in New York since her death in 2023. Her career spanned nearly eight decades bridging the circle of Gertrude Stein, post-war California, and late twentieth-century New York.