Paintings from the Paris Years until Today. The exhibition celebrates the 90th birthday of the artist
Paintings from the Paris Years until Today.A concentrated selection of SFMOMA's Kelly works before the museum closes its doors for expansion construction and launches into extensive off-site programming in June 2013. When the museum reopens in 2016, several galleries will be dedicated to Kelly's work, and with more than 40 Kelly pieces from the renowned Fisher Collection joining SFMOMA's holdings. The earliest work on view in this exhibition, Self-Portrait with Thorn (1947), and stop with Yellow Relief with White (2011), finished just over a year ago, is one of Kelly's most recent paintings.