{"product_id":"pair-of-spirit-drawings","title":"Pair of Spirit Drawings","description":"\u003cp\u003eALAN VEGA (1938-2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Pair of Spirit Drawings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeach signed and dated 'ALAN VEGA 2015' (lower edge)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeach: graphite on paper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eleft: 12 x 9 3\/4 inches (30.5 x 24.8 cm)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eright: 12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExecuted in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo of Alan Vega's late Spirit Drawings, signed and dated by the artist. The series emerged from a creative surge that defined Vega's later life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVega had drawn nightly for decades — earlier work being intense portraits of older men, executed in stacks of notebooks as a compulsion or ritual. The portraits began to lose their features, the faces gradually opening into something Vega himself described as Spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVega's first major museum exhibition of drawings was the 2009 Alan Vega Retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, where ninety-four drawings were shown for the first time. His drawings, including the Spirit Drawings Series, have subsequently been shown at Deitch Projects, New York (2017); Invisible Exports, New York (2014); New Discretions, New York (2017); The Armory Show, New York (2014, Laurent Godin Gallery booth); FIAC, Paris (2012, Laurent Godin Gallery booth); and Laurent Godin Gallery, Paris (2012, 2018, 2024).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePROVENANCE:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Estate of Alan Vega \/ Saturn Strip, LTD\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joopiter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48502075293945,"sku":"JP0426220","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/2783\/5385\/files\/JP0426220_1.jpg?v=1784038894","url":"https:\/\/shop.joopiter.com\/products\/pair-of-spirit-drawings","provider":"Joopiter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}