
Maison Ancart
Novelist Francine Prose visited Harold Ancart’s Brooklyn studio this past spring. Here, she reports on the paintings she encountered there and ponders the medium’s power to take us outside of ourselves.
Artist Spotlight
Harold Ancart’s paintings, sculptures, and installations explore our experience of natural landscapes and built environments. His works allude to a range of art historical sources and are often characterized by abstract passages of color. Focusing on recognizable subjects, Ancart isolates moments of poetry in everyday surroundings.
Launched in 2020, Artist Spotlight is presented once a month as a regular part of the gallery’s programming. Each Artist Spotlight highlights a work by an individual artist—made available exclusively online for forty-eight hours—together with new editorial features and selected archival content.
Artist Spotlight: Harold Ancart features a recent painting by the artist. For more information, please contact the gallery at collecting@gagosian.com.

Photo: Dianna Agron

Novelist Francine Prose visited Harold Ancart’s Brooklyn studio this past spring. Here, she reports on the paintings she encountered there and ponders the medium’s power to take us outside of ourselves.

The Summer 2023 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Richard Avedon’s Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York, May 6, 1957 on its cover.

Harold Ancart speaks with novelist Andrew Winer about being present, finding freedom in tension, and pathological escapism.