Constellation Series 7 (Draco's Dance)
1998
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View on museum website →Medium
ink, graphite, and chalk with incised lines and points on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 29.2 x 28.1 cm (11 1/2 x 11 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
Accession Number
2007.6.271
Art Historical Context
Edda Renouf's *Constellation Series 7Draco's Dance)*1998) invites viewers into a celestial reverie on a modest sheet of wove paper, measuring just 29.2 x 28.1 cm. This drawing, housed in the National Gallery of's Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, evokes the mythical constellation Draco through subtle marks of ink, graphite, chalk. Renouf, a Franco-American artist known for her meditative abstractions, transforms the paper's surface into a cosmic stage, where incised lines and pinpoint incisions suggest stars twinkling in rhythmic motion—a "dance" across the night sky. Renouf's technique is intimatel...
About the Artist
Edda Renouf
Edda Renouf was born in Mexico City in 1943 to an artistic family — her father, Edward Renouf, was himself a painter. She moved to the United States in 1957 and began her formal training at Sarah Lawrence College in 1961, later earning her Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University, where she studied under the painter Richard Pousette-Dart. A year spent at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Mu...