Hibernation

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MORRIS COLE GRAVES (1910-2001)
Graves, M.C.
Hibernation
signed and dated 'Graves 54' (lower right)
mixed media on paper
26 x 35 in. (66 x 88.9 cm.)
Executed in 1954.

Provenance

Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York.
Françoise and Harvey Rambach, New York, 1986.
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner by 2000.

Exhibited

(Probably) Youngstown, Ohio, The Butler Institute of American Art, Masterpieces of American Modernism: The Rambach Collection, January 11-April 26, 1998.
New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, American Modernism: The Françoise and Harvey Rambach Collection, September 30-November 20, 1999, pp. 139, 281, illustrated.
New York, Schmidt Bingham Gallery; Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum; Pullman, Washington, Washington State University, Museum of Art; Portland, Oregon, Lewis & Clark College, The Gallery of Contemporary Art; Moraga, California, St. Mary's College, The Hearst Art Gallery, Morris Graves: Instruments for a New Navigation, January 5, 2000-February 24, 2001.

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Lot Essay

The present work is part of the artist's 1954 Hibernation series. After arriving to Ireland late that year, Graves was inspired by his peaceful, rural surroudings. "The Hibernation series conveys Graves's response to the abrasive, life-damaging impact of our technological society; however, hibernation in this context implies a more universal function and represents a state in which consciousness can enter a higher realm." (R. Kass, Morris Graves: Vision of the Inner Eye, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1983, p. 63)

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