Agnes Martin - NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today New York Monday, June 17, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    The Elkon Gallery, Inc., New York
    PaceWildenstein, New York
    Private Collection, Switzerland
    Peter Blum, New York
    Private Collection, New York
    Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
    Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2007)
    Christie’s, London, February 14, 2013, lot 173
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, The Drawing Center; Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz and Agnes Martin, March 19, 2005 – March 26, 2006
    New York, Vivian Horan Fine Art, Minimalism: On and Off Paper, September 28 – November 17, 2006

  • Catalogue Essay

    Agnes Martin
    Born 1912, Macklin, Saskatchewan, Canada
    Died 2004, Taos, New Mexico

    1941 BS Teachers College, Columbia University, New York
    1952 MA Teachers College, Columbia University, New York

    Selected museum exhibitions: Philadelphia Museum of Art (2018); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2016); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2016); Tate Modern, London (2015); Aspen Art Museum (2014); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2009); Dia Art Foundation, New York (2004); Whitney Museum of American Art (1993); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1991); Hayward Gallery, London (1977); Contemporary Art at the University of Philadelphia (1973); Museum of Modern Art (1973)
    Selected honors: Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art (2005); National Medal of Arts (1998); Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale (1997)
    Selected public collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Art Institute of Chicago; Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas; Dia Art Foundation, New York; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Gallery, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art

    Agnes Martin’s serene abstractions have inspired generations of artists. The present untitled work dates from early in Martin’s career, as she was beginning to adopt a restrained geometric vocabulary of inscribed lines and grids. With its repetition of regularly spaced forms and subtle variations of application, this work reveals aspects of the origins of her exploration of meditative space to which she would dedicate her practice.

  • Artist Biography

    Agnes Martin

    American • 1912 - 2004

    As an artist defined by minimalism and abstract expressionism, Agnes Martin found serenity in her work. Commonly believed to have schizophrenia, Martin may have exercised her orderly grids and pastel colors as a way to find peace. After moving from Canada to New York City and earning her M.A. at Columbia University, she was supported by other talented artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Robert Indiana. Martin began her career with exhibitions at Betty Parson's Gallery, and her work quickly traveled internationally from there. Eventually moving to New Mexico, the artist ended her career and cut off all social ties. Martin was represented by Pace Gallery from 1975 and was recently given a retrospective at Tate Modern in 2015.

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Untitled

signed “a. martin” on the reverse
pencil and ink on etching proof
13 1/8 x 13 in. (33.3 x 33 cm.)
Executed circa 1960.

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NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today

New York Selling Exhibition 19 June - 3 August 2019