Jennifer Bartlett
Homan-ji #2LG
Lot Closed
September 23, 06:15 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jennifer Bartlett
b. 1941
Homan-ji #2LG
Executed in 1995.
Signed and dated recto
Mixed media on paper
Framed: 35 1/4 x 34 3/4 in. (89.6 x 88.7 cm.)
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Courtesy of Laura Delaney Taft and John Taft
Jennifer Bartlett (US, 1941–2022) was known for room-size installations exploring her immediate environments, including houses, mountains, trees, gardens, and the ocean. Her works often started in a controlled, mathematical abstraction and moved to more painterly realism.
In 1991 Bartlett was commissioned to create a work for the Homan-Ji Temple in Choshi-shi, Japan. The artist produced some 300 individual paintings on paper, which were installed directly on paneled sections of the Buddhist temple’s ceiling. Inspired by this experience, Bartlett later created more than 100 prints on handmade paper, working with Japanese pigments and squares of gold, silver, and platinum over geometric grids.
Bartlett’s works are held in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Modern, London; and many others.