Julian Schnabel

“The painter trains his eye to see by painting. Julian’s eye is insatiable. He sees paintings everywhere.” — James Nares 

This publication collects the 13 paintings featured in Julian Schnabel’s 2020 exhibition The Patch of Blue the Prisoner Calls the Sky, held at Pace Gallery in New York. Painted at his studio in Montauk, these large-scale works embrace the irregular shapes of their supports—fabric that covered a fruit market in Mexico. Also included is an essay by James Nares.