Etel Adnan
Ailleurs
"Ailleurs" is a 2018 colored etching with aquatint by Etel Adnan, the Lebanese American artist known for her lyrical abstractions and poetic approach to printmaking. The work, printed in an edition of 35 on Arches paper, demonstrates Adnan's characteristic use of vibrant color and gestural mark making to evoke landscape and emotion. The title, meaning "elsewhere" in French, reflects Adnan's lifelong exploration of displacement, memory, and the spaces between abstraction and representation.
- Medium
- Etching with aquatint printed in colours, 2018, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 35, on Arches paper, with full margins, sheet 480 x 380mm (18 7/8 x 15in) (framed), Framed dimensions: 570 x 460mm, Condition, Related Lots, BACK TO AUCTION CATALOGUE, Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004) Study for Great American Nude 95, Estimate: £15,000 - 20,000, Takashi Murakami (b.1962) Korin and Warhol, Estimate: £600 - 800, Damien Hirst (b.1965) H18-4. Splendour, from The Kaleidoscopes, Estimate
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Prints & Works on Paper 1500-2026
March 31, 2026
Lot 3
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