Richard Tuttle, The Delicacy of the World
Richard Long, Beyond the Landscape
Starting September 23, 2026
To offer a fresh perspective on the permanent works held in Avignon, the Collection Lambert is keeping the rooms of the Hôtel de Caumont open without interruption. The galleries now host monographic presentations of artists or highlight key periods of the collection and contemporary art history, rotated throughout the year. Current trends in art—both in France and abroad—and encounters with artists from all disciplines provide constant inspiration for these frequent room changes.
Each of these recurring occasions highlights the rich variety of this Avignon holding, unique in Europe, breathing new life into it and inspiring ongoing curiosity for the Collection Lambert and its masterpieces, ready to be revisited time and again.
This autumn, the Avignon institution pays tribute to two artists who accompanied a decisive moment in Yvon Lambert’s career: when, in the mid-1960s, he affirmed his commitment to an American and Anglo-Saxon scene that was still largely unknown in France: Richard Tuttle, The Delicacy of the World and Richard Long, Beyond the Landscape.
Richard Tuttle
Born on July 12, 1941, in Rahway, New Jersey, Richard Tuttle studied fine arts and philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford until 1963. He then moved to New York and began his artistic career as an assistant at the prestigious Betty Parsons Gallery, which gave him his first solo exhibition in 1965. Quickly recognized as a key figure of the Post-Minimalist movement, he challenged the rigidity of classic Minimalism by introducing a poetic, intimate approach centered on fragility. Throughout his practice, he uses modest materials such as paper, cardboard, fabric, and wire to explore the fluid boundaries between drawing, painting, and sculpture.
His career reached a major institutional milestone in 1975 with a controversial retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has since entered contemporary art history for the way it unsettled critics at the time. Over the decades, Richard Tuttle has exhibited at major international events, including several editions of Documenta in Kassel and the Venice Biennale. In 2005, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) organized a major retrospective that traveled across the United States. Today represented by Pace Gallery, his work is held in the permanent collections of institutions such as MoMA, the Centre Pompidou, and Tate.
Richard Long
Born on June 2, 1945, in Bristol, England, Richard Long studied at the West of England College of Art before attending the famous Saint Martin’s School of Art in London from 1966 to 1968. In 1967, while still a student, he created the seminal work A Line Made by Walking, in which he traced a straight line in the grass simply through the repetitive trampling of his footsteps. A key pioneer of Land Art and British Conceptual Art, he redefined sculpture by making the act of walking in nature the very core of his artistic practice. His work revolves around solitary journeys through remote landscapes across the globe, documented in galleries through photographs, maps, textworks, and installations made from raw materials gathered on site, such as stones, driftwood, or mud.
His career rapidly gained international scope with his first solo exhibition at the Konrad Fischer Gallery in Düsseldorf in 1968, followed by landmark showcases in the history of conceptual art. He represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1976 and won the prestigious Turner Prize in 1989. Major retrospectives have been dedicated to his work at leading institutions, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1986 and Tate Britain in London in 2009 (Heaven and Earth). Represented by Lisson Gallery and Sperone Westwater, his works are held today in the permanent collections of the world’s major museums, including Tate, MoMA, and the Centre Pompidou.
