

La Liberté du Rêve
2017
La Liberté du Rêve is a luminous color etching by the celebrated Lebanese American poet and visual artist Etel Adnan, created in 2017 and published in an edition of 35. The composition features two sweeping organic forms rendered in brilliant lime green and muted teal blue set against a soft sky blue ground, evoking Adnan's lifelong meditation on landscape, light, and color. Pencil signed and numbered by the artist, this print exemplifies her distilled visual language and her ability to communicate vast emotional terrain through minimal means. A highly sought after work available through Galerie Lelong, it represents an exceptional opportunity to acquire a signature piece from one of the most important artists of her generation.
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Edition
- 6 of 35
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Galerie Lelong
Notes
Edition number visible in pencil below image reads 6/35. Signature and date also inscribed in pencil lower right reading approximately 'Adnan 2017'. Second work visible in Galerie Lelong catalog: TOTEM, 2018, Etching, edition of 35, 48 x 38 cm, 7600 EUR.
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Helen Frankenthaler
American · b. 1928

Frankenthaler's color etchings and prints share Adnan's use of sweeping organic forms in luminous, saturated hues against open grounds, with both artists reducing landscape and light to essential flowing shapes and pure color relationships.
Joan Mitchell
American · b. 1925
Mitchell's prints and paintings translate landscape and emotional states into bold organic forms using a similar palette of greens and blues, sharing Adnan's lyrical abstraction rooted in Mediterranean and natural light.

Sam Francis
American · b. 1923

Francis produced luminous color etchings featuring soft open grounds punctuated by vivid organic color forms in greens, blues, and teals, closely mirroring the visual language and meditative lightness seen in Adnan's La Liberté du Rêve.

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