Marisol - NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today New York Monday, June 17, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    The Artist
    Joseph Grippi, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, Woodward Galleries, When Art Worlds Collide: The 60’s, May 17 – July 14, 2007

  • Catalogue Essay

    Marisol
    Born 1930, Paris
    Died 2016, New York

    1949 Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
    1950 Art Students League, New York
    1950-54 New School for Social Research, New York

    Selected museum exhibitions: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (2014); Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York (2001); Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan (1995); National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1991); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (1977); Worchester Art Museum, Massachusetts (1971); Venice Biennale (1968); Bojimans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam (1968); Arts Club of Chicago (1965)
    Selected honors: Medal of Honor, National Arts Club (1995); Premio Gabriela Mistral, Organization of American States (1997); Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Venezuela (1983); American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (1978); Award of Excellence in Design, Arts Commission of New York City (1958)
    Selected public collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Modern Art; Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; Whitney Museum of American Art

    First achieving critical and popular acclaim in the 1960s, Marisol Escobar created art that combined abstraction and figuration with observant wit. She was best known for sculpture that combined wooden and multimedia elements and for her ingenious works on paper. Noel, 1963, features repeated forms that radiate from the work’s center, which upon closer inspection are in fact a multitude of fingertips, an example of the formal power and inventive humor characteristic of Marisol’s art.

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Noël

signed, titled and dated "Marisol NOËL 1963" lower right
ink on paper
image 9 x 7 1/2 in. (22.9 x 19.1 cm.)
sheet 13 1/8 x 10 5/8 in. (33.3 x 27 cm.)

Executed in 1963.

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NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today

New York Selling Exhibition 19 June - 3 August 2019