Fernand Leger's "Three Women." Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

For the third phase of its inaugural program, Paris’ Louis Vuitton Foundation is mounting an exhibition of major works that have been “key to the development of modernity, and have changed the course of art history in the twentieth century.” Keys to a Passion will be held from April 1 to July 6, 2015.

The Louis Vuitton Foundation, which opened in October 2014, was established by the French multinational luxury goods conglomerate, LVMH Group. It is housed in a building commissioned by LVMH’s chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bernard Arnault, and designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect, Frank Gehry. Located in the Bois de Boulogne district, the diaphanous glass building spans 126,000 square feet and features eleven exhibition galleries presenting modern and contemporary works from the LVMH Group’s collection as well as masterpieces from Arnault’s personal holdings. The Foundation also hosts temporary exhibitions, artist commissions, multi-disciplinary performances, and events.

Keys to a Passion highlights the Louis Vuitton Foundation’s dedication to forging collaborative relationships with major French and international institutions. The State Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg), Tate Modern (London), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Guggenheim (New York) the Munch Museum (Oslo), the Gemeentemuseum (The Hague), the Pushkin Museum (Moscow), the State Russian Museum (Moscow), The Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo), the MNAM-Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Kunsthaus (Zurich), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles) will loan works to the Foundation for this seminal exhibition. According to The New York Times, Keys to a Passion will include a selection of the most pivotal works in modern art history, including Edvard Munch’s The Scream, Henri Matisse’s Dance, and Fernand Léger’s Three Women. Works by Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, Mark Rothko, Otto Dix, and Alberto Giacometti will also be on view.

The Louis Vuitton Foundation. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

The Louis Vuitton Foundation is currently presenting the exhibition Olafur Eliasson: Contact, which ends its run on February 23, 2015. Eliasson is widely considered one of the most influential and pioneering artists of his generation and is best known for his sculptures and large-scale installations that employ natural materials. Eliasson created a series of immersive light installations for the show that play with the perception and construction of spaces -- a topic the artist often explores in his work.

The Foundation’s inaugural exhibition showcased Gehry’s design for the astonishing building. The show explored Gehry’s creative process and charted the creation of the structure, from the first sketches to the completion of building work.