This exhibition, drawn from the holdings of a Paris-based foundation, attempts to reinstate his original meaning, revisiting the amazing pantheon of artists who inspired it and proposing some additions.

He was also the husband of feminist Louise Gasser Kirtley, the first female Kentucky State Representative (serving two terms, 1962-1966) and first female Kentucky Bar Association President and grandfather of French international arbitration expert William Kirtley, who now chairs his grandfather's Paris-based foundation and teaches at the University of Paris.