Hans Hartung’s dynamically incised marks balance control and spontaneity, revealing a lifelong pursuit of order within expressive freedom, while Georges Mathieu’s calligraphic compositions fuse emotional urgency with performative grandeur. Lynn Chadwick extended this postwar vitality into sculpture, evolving from the welded angularity of his early “geometry of fear” works to the bronze figures of the 1970s–80s, where singular and coupled forms embody themes of companionship and balance between abstraction and the human presence.

Representing a distinctly Japanese sensibility, Mr. and Takashi Murakami unveil several jointly produced paintings, bridging two signatures of Superflat. The protagonists, based on Mr.’s recent NFTs, are set amid Murakami’s jubilant flower fields—together, the works extend the artists’ long-running effort to collapse boundaries between “high” and popular visual cultures, and to read kawaii’s brightness against its shadow.