LEE BONTECOU (1931-2022)

“Like her sculptures, Bontecou’s drawings of fish and flowers from this period exude a certain synthetic quality…The flowers are composed from round disks, petals, that circle a central sphere…In direct correspondence to the sculptures of the time, the drawings bear representations of bolts and fasteners at the base of the stems and in the petals, as if the flowers are pieced together, artificially constructed” (M. White, “Lee Bontecou’s Drawn Worlds,” Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds, Houston, 2014, p. 18).