- Title
- Sketchbook
- Date Made
- 2007
- Medium
- Gouache and oil stick on paper
- Dimensions
- 12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2019.229.7.9
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
- Curatorial Notes
Burhan Doǧançay was one of Turkey’s foremost contemporary artists. He first became known for his “Urban Walls” series documenting walls covered with curled and mangled advertisements, posters, and graffiti, often in vibrant colors, which he reconstructed into new narratives throughout the 1960s and beyond. Each page from the late artist’s sketchbooks relates to works by Doǧançay in LACMA’s collection, including “Versace Man” (
M.2015.160.1https://collections.lacma.org/node/2114914">M.2015.160.1>), the “Ribbons” series, as well as his gouache on paper drawings, such as “Octopus” (M.2019.229.1https://collections.lacma.org/node/2288180">M.2019.229.1>). Doǧançay’s sketchbooks illuminate the way the artist ruminated upon and interpreted similar colorful, gestural, abstract forms drawn from a wide variety of sources throughout his important artistic career.