Claire TABOURET The Wanderer (Red) - 2017 Ink on paper 50.80 × 38.10 cm Ink on paper 20 × 15 in. Source : Night Gallery, Los Angeles Ravenel Sale, Taipei, Spring Auction, Select: Modern & Contemporary Art, 5 June 2021, lot 71 Acquired at this auction by the current owner Exhibitions : Los Angeles, Night Gallery, Eclipse, 27 January - 4 March 2017 Condition: A certificate will be given to the buyer. Claire TABOURET Claire Tabouret depicts figures and landscapes in states of appearance and disappearance. Although she often (but not always) works from pre-existing photographic images linked to particular historical narratives, she pursues her chosen subjects as if they were living entities, allowing them to take on new and unexpected forms in her art. She eventually abandons pre-existing sources to allow a freer, more personal and expressive pictorial vocabulary to emerge. The distinctions between figure and ground become blurred, creating spaces charged with psychological and emotional depth. The title of the Éclipse exhibition, in which this work featured, alludes to the artist's propensity to "disappear". When the sun or moon 'disappear' because they are eclipsed, the natural order of things seems altered, adding to the meaning of the symbolic omen. Some of the works in the exhibition depict groups of characters whose individuality is about to be lost in the social contexts that threaten to engulf them. Claire Tabouret depicts figures and landscapes in states of appearance and disappearance. Though she often (but not always) works from pre-existing photographic images connected to particular historical narratives, she pursues her chosen subjects as if they were living entities, allowing them to assume new and unexpected forms in her art. Eventually she leaves pre-existing sources behind as a freer, more personal, and more expressive painterly vocabulary emerges. Distinctions between figure and ground are blurred, creating spaces charged with psychological and emotional depth. The title of the exhibition Éclipse, in which this work featured, alludes to the human propensity to notice things that are about to be obscured; when the sun or moon 'disappear' because they are eclipsed, the natural order of things seems altered, heightening the meaning of the symbolic omen. Some of the works in the exhibition depict groups of characters whose individuality is about to be lost in the social contexts that threaten to engulf them.