Etel Adnan was a contemporary American-Lebanese painter and writer known for her vibrantly coloured, abstracted depictions of mountains, ocean, and sky. Adnan’s work interprets the Northern Californian landscape around San Francisco Bay, where she spent much of her life. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, she studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and at U.C. Berkeley before writing her famous novel Sitt Marie-Rose, which was published in Paris in 1977. The novel was enormously influential, and has since been translated into more than 10 languages. Adnan was featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the British Museum in London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, among others. Adnan passed away in Paris on November 14, 2021 at the age of 96.
ETEL ADNAN (Lebanese, 1925-2021)
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Acquired in 2017
