Agnes Martin - Contemporary Art Evening Sale New York Friday, March 4, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Robert Elkon Gallery, New York; B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago; Pace Gallery, New York; Private collection, New York

  • Catalogue Essay

    My formats are square, but the grids never are absolutely square, they are rectangles a little bit off the 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.
     
    –Agnes Martin, 1967
     
    (Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, 2005, p. 216)

  • 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

1967
Graphite on paper.
9 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (23.5 x 23.5 cm).
Signed and dated “a. martin 1967” on the reverse of the backing board.

Estimate
$80,000 - 120,000 

Sold for $104,500

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

4 March 2011
New York