May 7 – June 13, 2026
The Great Unseen Collection
David Zwirner
In Person Viewing:
New York: 20th Street
537 West 20th Street
New York, New York 10011
Online Viewing:
https://www.davidzwirner.com/the-great-unseen-collection-joel-carole-bernstein
David Zwirner is pleased to present and offer a selection of works from the collection of Joel and Carole
Bernstein. Affectionately dubbed The Great Unseen Collection by the Bernsteins and their family, this
grouping of works will be on view at the gallery’s location at 525 West 19th Street in New York. The
selection reflects the refined eye and distinctive taste that the couple honed over more than six decades
of collecting, and will include works by Romare Bearden, Joan Brown, Roger Brown, Joe Coleman, Jean
Dubuffet, Eric Fischl, Audrey Flack, David Gilhooly, Alex Katz, Alice Neel, Fairfield Porter, Peter Saul,
Bob Thompson, Andy Warhol, John Wesley, Tom Wesselmann, and Joseph Yoakum; along with a
selection of additional works.
Highlights from the presentation include a double portrait by Alice Neel of artist Red Grooms and his
wife and collaborator Mimi Gross from 1967; Fairfield Porter’s significant 1966 work Iced Coffee, one of his largest paintings, which debuted in his 1967 show at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York; Alex Katz’s monumentally scaled portrait of his wife Ada, Ada and Flowers (1980); a 1975 self-portrait by San Francisco painter Joan Brown that features on the cover of the catalogue for her 2022–2023 retrospective organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; a late Romare Bearden collage, Street Serenade (1979–1980); and Andy Warhol’s silk-screened pastiche Judy Garland (1979); among other important works.
