Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Jacqueline de Jong's Les pazzes de la piazza, 1965, by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). This is the first work by de Jong to enter the museum's collection, closing a gap of political work by women artists from the period. This follows other recent acquisitions by institutions, including Centre Pompidou, Paris and Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, of works by the artist from the 1960s.
Les pazzes de la piazza was made in the summer of 1965 during a competition of professional and amateur artists at the Piazza in Ascona, Switzerland, in just four hours before a winner was decided. De Jong was awarded first prize and the painting was then exhibited at the Art Centre in Ascona. It has since been exhibited as part of the artist’s retrospectives at the Cobra Museum for Contemporary Art, Amstelveen (2003), KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Denmark (2003), and in 2022 at Kunstmuseum Ravensburg. The work was also part of Pippy Houldsworth Gallery’s solo presentation of de Jong's works from the 1960s at Art Basel 2023.
De Jong's first US institutional solo exhibition, Vicious Circles, opens at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale on 17 November 2024.
