Igitur
1995
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View on museum website →Medium
portfolio of seven etchings with title pages
Dimensions
overall (closed): 26.67 × 26.35 × 2.22 cm (10 1/2 × 10 3/8 × 7/8 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Friends of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)
Accession Number
2015.19.3107.1-7
Art Historical Context
Edda Renouf's *Igitur* (1995) is a delicate portfolio of seven etchings with title pages, measuring 26.67 × 26.35 × 2.22 cm when closed. Housed in the National Gallery of Art as part of the Corcoran Collection, this intimate work exemplifies Renouf's signature style of subtle abstraction. Drawing inspiration from Stéphane Mallarmé's enigmatic prose poem *Igitur*—an exploration of existence, absence, and the void—the etchings invite viewers into a meditative realm where faint lines and grids evoke shimmering light and spatial depth. Renouf, an American artist based in France since the 1970s, i...
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...