Martin Puryear American, b. 1941
Phrygian (Cap in the Air), 2012
color softground, spitbite, drypoint & aquatint etching
image: 23 3/4 x 17 3/4"
sheet: 35 x 28"
sheet: 35 x 28"
edition: 36/50
signed and dated recto
Martin Puryear represented the USA at the Venice Biennale in 2019 and is considered one of our most celebrated sculptors. Print-making has been a constant throughout his distinguished career, and...
Martin Puryear represented the USA at the Venice Biennale in 2019 and is considered one of our most celebrated sculptors. Print-making has been a constant throughout his distinguished career, and exhibitions celebrating his prints and drawing have appeared at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York and The Art Institute of Chicago.
We are proud to offer Phrygian Cap an abstract play on the cloth cap shape, a symbol of freedom during the French Revolution. The cap fills the sheet, and Puryear enjoys sharing how he thinks about and abstracts form, creating an intriguing design out of the geometry of a known object rather than illustrating the object itself.