Jennifer Bartlett (1941-2022) Blue Boats Island, 1984 Oil on canvas 13 x 16 inches (33.0 x 40.6 cm) Signed and dated on the reverse lower stretcher: J Bartlett 1984 Inscribed to reverse upper stretcher: JB465 Proceeds will benefit Duke University's School of Nursing PROVENANCE: Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Private collection, New York, acquired from the above. In Blue Boats Island, Bartlett captures a moment of serene clarity through her signature blend of simplicity and painterly directness. Painted in 1984, the work reflects her shift during the 1980s away from the gridded conceptual structures of her earlier career and toward a more expressive, personal mode of painting. The bold, graphic brushwork and limited palette echo the artist's ongoing interest in repetition, motif, and memory, while the subject—a pair of boats drifting in luminous turquoise waters—offers a sense of quiet rhythm and everyday poetry. Like much of Bartlett's work, it balances formal experimentation with emotional resonance, grounding abstraction in the intimacy of lived experience. HID12401132022 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice