Frank Gehry was best known for his iconic architectural landmarks, such as the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris among others. Gehry also produced a rich body of sculptural work that echoed the dynamism and spontaneity of his architectural practice. The artist and architect very sadly passed away in December 2025, as this work was on view in our current exhibition, leaving behind an immense legacy that will influence artists and designers for generations.

In Untitled (London I), Frank Gehry does more than build form, he redefines it, bending structure until it breathes and moves. Born from the tension between the rigid and the fluid, a contrast that has defined Gehry’s practice since the late 1970s, this sculpture speaks in a language of movement and fracture, of construction caught on the edge of deconstruction.

Frank Gehry’s fascination with fish dated back to childhood, when his grandmother would bring home a live carp each week, letting it swim in the bathtub before preparing it for gefilte fish. But Gehry’s connection to the form extended beyond family memory. The architect and designer described the fish as “the perfect form” and “a complete vocabulary,” a recurring motif that embodied his experimental approach to structure and movement. His iconic fish lamps, first created in 1983, traced the evolution of this fascination, culminating in works like Untitled (London I), 2013, where fluidity and form converge in light.

Frank Gehry received numerous honors during his lifetime recognizing his profound impact on architecture and design, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1989), the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association (1992), the National Medal of the Arts (1998), the AIA Gold Medal (1999), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2002), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016). His work is represented in major public collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, Centre Pompidou, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, and Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea.

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