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Lot Essay
This work will be included in an upcoming catalogue raisonné to be published digitally by Artifex Press.
'My formats are square, but the [imagery] is never absolutely square... making a sort of contradiction, a dissonance, though I
didn't set out to do it that way. When I cover the square surface with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square, destroys its
power’
(A. Martin, quoted in Dieter Schwarz (ed.), Agnes Martin Writings, Winterthur, 1992, p. 29).
'My formats are square, but the [imagery] is never absolutely square... making a sort of contradiction, a dissonance, though I
didn't set out to do it that way. When I cover the square surface with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square, destroys its
power’
(A. Martin, quoted in Dieter Schwarz (ed.), Agnes Martin Writings, Winterthur, 1992, p. 29).