Etel Adnan (1925 - 2021) Lebanon
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Measure 8"in H x 5 3/4"inW and 12 3/4"in H x 10 1/2"in W with frame

Known for: Geometric and other abstract painting, watercolor and oil
Biography: Currently the focus of a significant career-survey exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, multi-lingual Etel Adnan was widely regarded as one the most significant voices of contemporary Arab-American culture. Born in Lebanon in 1925 to a Syrian father and Greek mother, her childhood was somewhat peripatetic, moving between Beirut and Damascus before journeying to Europe and the United States, first as a student and later as a lecturer and artist. Having gained notoriety at various points in her long life as a renowned poet and novelist, designer, essayist, and a professor of philosophy and aesthetics, Adnan found her voice as a painter in the early 1960s. Moving between different countries as fluidly as she has subsequently moved between mediums, Adnan’s practice matured to reflect this rich sense of cross-cultural and interdisciplinary exchange, one rooted in her intense engagement with the world around her. In pursuing a mode of abstraction that remains, nevertheless, tethered to a sense of physical specificity, Adnan’s compositional arrangement recalls the broad zones of flattened colour used to great effect in the landscapes of Milton Avery and pushed further into abstraction by colour field painters Mark Rothko and Richard Diebenkorn. Tellingly, Adnan aligned herself to these American masters, describing herself as a ‘Californian artist’, explaining that ‘the colours I use, the brightness – they are the colours of California’.ii Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park, No. 79, 1975, Image: Philadelphia Museum of Art: Purchased with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and with funds contributed by private donors, 1977, 1977-28-1, Artwork: © The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Paul Klee,

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