Inkpots
2015
Inkpots presents a series of small abstract compositions rendered in India ink and watercolor across a bound booklet format. This intimate work-on-paper demonstrates Adnan's experimentation with fluid media and spontaneous gesture at a reduced scale. Each page functions as both individual meditation and part of a sequential narrative, creating an artist book experience. The interplay of ink's darkness and watercolor's transparency generates luminous abstract studies. The booklet format emphasizes the contemplative, private nature of the artist's daily practice and her commitment to accessibility in art-making.
- Medium
- India ink and watercolor on booklet
- Dimensions
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Galerie Lelong
Notes
From Galerie Lelong catalog. Reference: W18679.
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Collectors with works by Etel Adnan
Artists in conversation
Cy Twombly
American · b. 1928
Twombly worked extensively with ink and fluid marks on paper, creating spontaneous gestural scrawls and washes that share the same sense of immediacy and layered tension found in Inkpots. His intimate works on paper blend drawing and painting through fluid media with a similarly casual yet charged energy.
Henri Michaux
Belgian · b. 1899
Michaux created intimate ink and watercolor works in small booklet and notebook formats, using spontaneous marks and fluid washes to generate visual rhythms that closely mirror the approach seen in Inkpots. His combination of permanent ink with translucent color layers produces the same visual tension present in this piece.
Tacita Dean
British · b. 1965
Dean works with fluid media on intimate paper formats, combining ink and watercolor in ways that emphasize the physical properties of the materials and encourage close personal engagement. Her small scale works on paper share the same portable intimacy and spontaneous mark making quality central to Inkpots.
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