Guatemala
2017
This 2017 etching by the celebrated Lebanese-American artist Etel Adnan exemplifies her distinctive approach to landscape abstraction, distilling the essence of Guatemala into bold geometric planes of orange, blue, and tan. Part of a limited edition of 35, the work showcases Adnan's masterful color relationships and her ability to convey profound spatial depth through simplified forms—a hallmark that has made her prints highly sought after in recent years. The composition reflects her lifelong meditation on mountains and horizons, themes central to her practice across painting, poetry, and printmaking. With Adnan's growing institutional recognition and market strength following her late-career retrospectives, this intimate-scale work offers an accessible entry point into her powerful visual language.
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Sylvia Plimack Mangold
American · b. 1938
Mangold creates geometric landscape abstractions using simplified planar forms and restrained color relationships that closely mirror Adnan's approach in this etching, distilling observed landscapes into bold flat zones of color with quiet spatial depth.
Shirazeh Houshiary
Iranian-British · b. 1955
Houshiary works as a Middle Eastern female artist producing abstract prints and works on paper that balance geometric minimalism with vibrant color field sensibility, sharing the same meditative distillation of landscape and place found in this Guatemala etching.
Monique Frydman
French · b. 1943
Frydman produces abstract color field prints and works on paper using bold geometric planes of warm orange, blue, and earth tones that achieve spatial depth through color alone, making her practice remarkably close in visual language to this Adnan etching.
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