Louis Eilshemius

And this you call fame

Opening Thursday 23rd January 2025

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CASSIUS&Co. presents And this you call fame, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Louis Eilshemius (1864 - 1941), opening on Thursday 23rd January 2025. This is the first time Eilshemius’ work has been presented in London since Ed Ruscha: Eilshemius & Me at Gagosian in 2019, and possibly the first time the artist has ever been the subject of a solo exhibition at a London gallery.

Louis Eilshemius was an American painter, poet, composer and self-proclaimed seer of the early 20th century, whose work ought to be understood as sitting at the crux of American painting. While his eccentricity has meant that he has too often and too easily been dismissed, his work has been intuitively grasped and celebrated by successive generations of artists, not least Marcel Duchamp, his first champion, as well as Henri Matisse, Louise Nevelson, Joseph Stella, Jeff Koons, Ugo Rondinone, Peter Doig and Merlin James, among many others. 

This exhibition is intended as something of a break from or even an antidote to the relentlessness of Contemporary art, offering instead a rare presentation of an artist who is largely uncolonised by the market, who was hopeless at socialising or being slick, and who made some of the most authentic, direct and individual paintings of the early 20th century.

Louis Eilshemius: And you call this fame will be presented alongside a bookshelf exhibition of rare books relating to Hinduism and Indian mystics.