Untitled

Details

Agnes Martin (1912-2004)
Untitled
oil, ink and wash on canvas
12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1961.

Provenance

Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. List, Greenwich
Her sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 2003, lot 4
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, Agnes Martin: Eight Paintings 1961-1967, March 1972.
Detroit Institute of Arts and Fort Worth Art Museum, American Artists: A New Decade, July 1976-January 1977.

Lot Essay

"All art work is about beauty, all positive art work represents it and celebrates it. All negative art protests the lack of beauty in our lives."

(Martin, quoted in "What We Do Not See If We Do Not See," Writings/Schriften, H. von Dieter Schwarz, New York, 1992, p. 114).

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