Sarah Morris – Total Lunar Eclipse

Sarah Morris's Total Lunar Eclipse (2012) is a signed screenprint that exemplifies her precise geometric abstraction and sustained engagement with systems, structure, and spectacle. Measuring 50.2 × 50.2 cm, the abstract composition is built from intersecting grids and circular forms that recall both architectural planning and astronomical alignment.

The overlapping discs suggest the phases of a lunar eclipse, while the sharp vertical and horizontal bands introduce a sense of regulation and order. Sarah Morris's calibrated palette of saturated orange, yellow, cobalt blue, green, black, and white creates a dynamic tension between celestial reference and urban logic. As in many of her paintings and prints, the artwork operates at the intersection of abstraction and coded meaning, where geometry becomes a language for power, infrastructure, and global connectivity.

Published in 2012 in a limited edition of 108, Total Lunar Eclipse is hand-signed and numbered by the artist. This fine art print stands as a compelling example of Morris's contemporary artworks, translating the visual grammar of her larger paintings into a collectible print format.

Sarah Morris (born 1967, Kent, UK) is a leading contemporary artist whose artworks span painting, printmaking, and film. Internationally recognized for her bold geometric abstraction, Morris investigates the visual languages of power, architecture, and urban identity. Her paintings and fine art prints are closely linked to her films, a relationship she describes as “two sides of the same coin,” with each medium informing the other.

Central to Sarah Morris’s artwork are city-based series dedicated to global metropolises such as New York, Los Angeles, London, Beijing, Rio, and Miami. These bodies of work translate architectural structures, corporate logos, political spaces, and urban systems into precise abstract compositions. Using household gloss paint on square canvases and producing related limited edition prints, Morris builds complex grid structures in saturated, high-contrast color. Her artworks function as visual maps of contemporary cities, distilling their economic, cultural, and institutional frameworks into sharp-edged form.

Morris’s geometric prints play a significant role within her oeuvre, extending her painterly investigations into collectible, limited edition artworks. These editions retain the clarity, chromatic intensity, and structural rigor of her paintings while offering a focused exploration of urban spectacle and branding.

Her artworks have been exhibited internationally in major institutions, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Kunsthalle Zürich, Hamburger Bahnhof, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Whitechapel Gallery, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Kunsthalle Wien, and Deichtorhallen Hamburg. Morris lives and works in London and New York, and her artworks remain highly sought after within the global contemporary art market.