The hotly anticipated new Gagosian gallery in Paris now has two equally anticipated shows to go with its October 20th opening. Of these, the main event will surely be the presentations of "Camino Real," five new works by Cy Twombly that have an “allusive and elusive” relationship with the Tennessee Williams play of the same name, according to the gallery.

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The show follows quickly on the heels of another coup de theatre in the French capital by the Virginia-born artist, who painted a sky-blue-with-spheres "Ceiling" into the Louvre's Salle des Bronzes earlier this year — earning himself an order of Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in the process. Twombly's new paintings are described as vivid, with the intense colors of his "Peony Blossom" or "The Rose Series," which was also on show at Gagosian’s London gallery in spring 2009. The works will be flanked by Twombly’s patinaed bronze sculptures, also previously seen at Gagosian in New York in September 2009.

View Slideshow: Gagosian welcomes himself to Paris with Twombly and Prouvé

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French architect Jean Prouvé gets a show of avant-garde prefab architectural designs, 26 years after his death. A blacksmith turned one of France’s most versatile designers, Prouvé turned housebuilding into a factory project, producing everything from frame houses for refugees to groundbreaking metal furniture through his Maxéville studio.

It’s also Gagosian’s welcome handshake and mutual pat-on-the-back to Patrick Seguin, whose Paris gallery has been a one-stop Prouvé resource for more than 20 years (and is also great for some of Le Corbusier’s unabashedly rough work, such as his concrete and aluminum lamps). Seguin previously brought Prouvé and furniture designer Charlotte Perriand to Gagosian’s Los Angeles space and worked with Gagosian on Richard Prince’s 2008 show in Paris.

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The announcement of the two shows also shed fresh light on the layout of Gagosian’s new space — still cardboarded-up near the Champs Elysées — which will have its main gallery on the ground floor, with a skylight and a spiral staircase among its assets. The second floor will hold the Project Room, which will host Prouvé and future independent shows.