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French
(1934–1983)
Her Eyes
1979
Colored pencil on paper
29.375 x 43.875 x 0.625 in.
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
2004.4
These three drawings in colored pencil by Guy de Cointet were acquired from the Hal and Mary Ann Glicksman collection in 2004. They had originally been given by Cointet to his longtime friends and collaborators in gratitude for Mary Ann’s unpaid participation in an “interview”—in fact, a performance—staged by Cointet at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. (Hal attests that “[w]hen Guy was asked to do an artist’s talk about his work he would instead go with Mary Ann, who would perform a solo piece such as My Father’s Diary. At the . . . Workshop Mary Ann also did the Q&A, with Guy sitting as silent as the Sphinx.”) Many of Cointet’s paintings and drawings encode the texts of his playlike performances, transforming the normal (if self-consciously literary) language into “alphabets” of geometric elegance and mystery. Many other works codify unperformed texts, but his entire visual output should be considered parallel to and of a piece with his theatrical (and publishing) work.
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