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Renée Petropoulos — For Clarice L.
Renée Petropoulos

For Clarice L.

2020

For Clarice L. centers on an intimate grid of flowers rendered through photograph, collage, and ink, each bloom chosen for its geographic resonance with the life of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. Sunflowers invoke Ukraine, where Lispector was born, while orchids summon Brazil, the country that shaped her literary voice and claimed her as its own. The 38.1 by 38.1 centimeter work belongs to an ongoing series by Renée Petropoulos in which the homage itself becomes a kind of monument, a quiet but deliberate act of commemoration that refuses grand gestures in favor of accumulated, layered meaning. The collaged surface rewards close attention, with ink working against photographic material to produce a composition that feels simultaneously archival and handmade. Petropoulos brings more than four decades of sustained practice to this series, and her work resides in distinguished institutional collections including the Hammer Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and MACO Oaxaca, among others. For Clarice L. carries that depth of commitment while remaining approachable in scale and intimate in spirit, making it well-suited to a private collection where it can be encountered up close and at length. The work is signed by the artist, ships from Los Angeles, and arrives unframed, leaving collectors the freedom to present it according to their own spatial sensibility.

Medium
Photograph, collage, ink
Overall
Signed
Yes

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Renée Petropoulos, For Clarice L., 2020

For Clarice L. centers on an intimate grid of flowers rendered through photograph, collage, and ink, each bloom chosen for its geographic resonance with the life of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. Sunflowers invoke Ukraine, where Lispector was born, while orchids summon Brazil, the country that shaped her literary voice and claimed her as its own. The 38.1 by 38.1 centimeter work belongs to an ongoing series by Renée Petropoulos in which the homage itself becomes a kind of monument, a quiet but deliberate act of commemoration that refuses grand gestures in favor of accumulated, layered meaning. The collaged surface rewards close attention, with ink working against photographic material to produce a composition that feels simultaneously archival and handmade. Petropoulos brings more than four decades of sustained practice to this series, and her work resides in distinguished institutional collections including the Hammer Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and MACO Oaxaca, among others. For Clarice L. carries that depth of commitment while remaining approachable in scale and intimate in spirit, making it well-suited to a private collection where it can be encountered up close and at length. The work is signed by the artist, ships from Los Angeles, and arrives unframed, leaving collectors the freedom to present it according to their own spatial sensibility.

Medium
Photograph, collage, ink
Dimensions
overall: 38.1 x 38.1 cm
Year
2020
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Venice Art Walk Benefit Auction

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