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A little-known pioneer of Color Field painting, Alice Baber reflected the expansiveness of the world as she saw it through the basic building blocks of painting—color, light and shape. Untitled, 1972, relies on her signature rounded, organic forms to form an “X” across the canvas, a compositional arrangement found in many of her paintings. With her quintessential “sun colors,” the bright and varied hues create an illusion of light streaming across the canvas. Inspired by her summers in Illinois and winters in Florida, Baber’s paintings like the present one perfectly encapsulates what mattered most to the artist. “The days I remember are the days that are in color.”i“When I first conceive of a painting , I must feel it, I hear it, I taste it, and I want to eat it. I start from the driving force of color (color hunger); then comes to a second color to provide light, luminous light. It will be the glow to reinforce the first color.” — Alice Baber, 1972
"Intimate Rhythms” of Color
Transitioning from painting still lifes to depicting more abstract forms in the 1950s, Baber used the opacity of watercolor to inform her later signature technique in oil. Diluting paint to create different intensities of color, Baber would often wrap a linen rag around her fingers to create elegant dabs and irregular swathes of pigment across her canvases. She preferred oil to acrylic, as it took longer to dry and therefore allowed for more time to get the desired effect of washy halo-forms. Through an intentionally timed process, Baber placed her orbs of color around the canvas, creating a surface which is “composed of intimate rhythms reflecting the artist’s sensibilities.”ii Painted just a few years before she turned to a darker color palette, trading her warm tones for grays and blacks, the present work is a prime example of Baber’s own distinct Color Field practice.
A detail of the present work.
Like many painters of the time, Baber settled in New York City in the early 1950s with the dream of becoming an artist. She made ends meet by relying on her other talent—writing—while making contacts in the burgeoning art scene. By 1957, Baber was chosen to participate in the Stable Gallery’s sixth annual exhibition and in 1958, Baber had her first exhibition at the cooperative March Gallery, whose exhibitors included Elaine de Kooning. Following the March Gallery exhibition, Baber decided to move to Paris for half of each year, practicing alongside other Americans seeking a new European outlook including Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, and her future husband Paul Jenkins. Here, Baber exhibited alongside fellow Color Field painter Helen Frankenthaler in 1959.
In addition to her painting practice, Baber was an advocate for female artists, spearheading multiple exhibitions of women’s art during her lifetime. Despite the attention she received by her peers, however, Baber’s work was largely overlooked until recently. She passed away from cancer just ten years after the present work was created, at the young age of 54, unable to see some of her most prized works now held in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Together with the stories of artists including Lynne Drexler, Emily Mason and other trailblazing female painters overshadowed by their male contemporaries, the resurgence of Baber’s work is helping to contribute to a more holistic and inclusive understanding of 20th century art history.
i Alice Baber, quoted in Susan W. Cutter, Alice Baber, Painter, New York, Women in the Arts, 1975, p. 7.
ii Jonathan Ingersoll, quoted in Alice Baber – Color, Light and Image, exh. Cat., St. Mary’s College of Maryland Gallery, St. Mary’s, 1977, n.p.
Provenance
Galerie Georges Fall, Paris
Private Collection, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Property from a Prominent Private Collection, New York
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Untitled
signed "Baber" lower left; signed, indistinctly inscribed and dated "Baber Alice Baber...1972" on the reverse
oil on canvas
29 3/4 x 39 3/4 in. (75.6 x 101 cm)
Painted in 1972.
Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000
Sold for $95,250
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Alma Woodsey Thomas
Untitled
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Anne Truitt
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Alice Baber
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104
Joan Brown
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105
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107
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108
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Sam Francis
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110
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111
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112
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116
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117
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118
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119
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126
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127
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128
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129
James Rosenquist
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132
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133
Chung Sang-Hwa
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134
Robert Mangold
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untitled
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Jim Dine
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Neil Jenney
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Lois Dodd
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141
Tom Wesselmann
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142
Tom Wesselmann
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146
Keith Haring
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Ernie Barnes
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Ernie Barnes
Pool Hall Scene
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149
Ernie Barnes
Study Sketch for Tennis
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150
Wayne Thiebaud
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151
Richard Diebenkorn
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152
Milton Avery
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153
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Confederated Salish and Kootenai)
El Morro #66M
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154
Willem de Kooning
Woman – Lipstick
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155
Edgar Degas
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156
Auguste Rodin
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157
Maurice de Vlaminck
Fleurs dans un pichet blanc
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158
Henri Matisse
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159
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160
Alexander Calder
Four Creatures
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161
Alexander Calder
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Ed Ruscha
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163
Ed Ruscha
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164
Brice Marden
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165
Alighiero Boetti
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166
Sigmar Polke
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167
Gerhard Richter
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168
Gerhard Richter
Untitled (13.4.08)
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169
Friedel Dzubas
Aurora
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170
Paul Jenkins
Phenomena Natchez Trace
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171
Beauford Delaney
Wine
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172
Robert Motherwell
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Toshimitsu Imai
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174
Sam Francis
Untitled
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175
Alexander Calder
Cobblestones
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176
Tom Wesselmann
Two works: (i) Study for Reclining Nude; (ii) Study for Nude Lying Back
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177
Alex Katz
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178
Susan Weil
Bathers
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179
Arshile Gorky
Portrait of Helen Austin
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180
David Park
Boy in Colored Cap
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181
Hector Poleo
Mujer con pañuelo
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182
Sandú Darié
Untitled
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183
Ilya Bolotowsky
Yellow Tondo
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184
Ilya Bolotowsky
Relief
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185
Ilya Bolotowsky
Vertical Diamond in Black
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186
Thomas Downing
Untitled
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187
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Trans Gray
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188
De Wain Valentine
Concave Circle Blue Green
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189
John McLaughlin
#7
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190
Robert Morris
Vetti V
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191
Sorel Etrog
War Remembrance
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192
Louise Bourgeois
Germinal
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193
Georgia O'Keeffe
Untitled (Clay Pot and Stand)
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194
Arnaldo Pomodoro
Asse del movimento I
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195
Arnaldo Pomodoro
Colonna
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196
Mathias Goeritz
Clouage
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197
Joel Shapiro
Untitled
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198
Tony Smith
Light Box
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199
Sir Anthony Caro, O.M, R.A.
Open Secret
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200
Carl Andre
Untitled
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201
Carl Andre
arc bin bur cam
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202
Carl Andre
ESSAY ON PAINTING FOR F P STELLA 1965
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203
Lee Lozano
Untitled
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204
Andy Warhol
Three works: (i-iii) Seismograph
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205
Andy Warhol
Plate of Food with Man's Chest
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206
Gottfried Helnwein
Untitled (Red Gun II)
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207
Gottfried Helnwein
Untitled (The Disasters of War 24)
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208
George Condo
Religions of its Time
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209
George Condo
The King
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210
George Condo
Still Life
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211
George Condo
Torro
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212
Leon Kelly
Bird on an Asian Pinnacle
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213
César
La Mouche
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214
Claude Lalanne
Pomme Bouche
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215
Niki de Saint Phalle
Serpent sur ressort
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216
Niki de Saint Phalle
Small Bull Totem
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217
Niki de Saint Phalle
Petit Dragon
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218
Louise Nevelson
Maquette for Monumental Sculpture VII
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219
Arnaldo Pomodoro
Sfera
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
Sold for $95,250
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Arnaldo Pomodoro
Disco
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $31,750
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221
Clement Meadmore
Elaboration
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $22,860
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Ibram Lassaw
Labyrinth VII
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000 •
Sold for $1,270
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