Variation 203

Deborah Hanson Murphy

BornNationalityBased In
1931AmericanParis
Biography

Deborah Hanson Murphy was a painter whose meticulous work consists of a series of paintings she called “Variations”. These works are both understated and rigorous in their composition and approach to colour, elaborating over many years a series of forms, repeated serially throughout her still lives to the point where they no longer are able to remain still; the floor recedes from under the objects, suspended in space, the forms shed their names and take on other qualities. Hanson Murphy (b. Stockton, USA, 1931; d. Paris, France, 2018) was largely overlooked as a painter during her lifetime. She graduated in 1953 from Stanford University and was a student at the Art Students League in New York from 1957 to 1958. She worked mostly in Paris, her adopted city, where she lived from 1968 until her death. ...

Selected Artworks
Variation 1
Variation 30
Variation 251
Deborah Hanson Murphy
Variation 251, 1984
54 x 81cm
Variation 203
Deborah Hanson Murphy
Variation 203, 1981
73 x 92cm
Variation 49
Variation 544
Deborah Hanson Murphy
Variation 544, 2005
73 x 60cm
Variation 85
Variation 85
Variation 69
Variation 89
Gallery Representation
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