John Graham - New Now New York Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection (purchased directly from the artist)
    Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)
    Hollis Taggart, New York (acquired from the above in 2005)
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007

  • Exhibited

    Watermill, Parrish Art Museum, John Graham: Maverick Modernist, May 7–July 30, 2017, pl. 34, no. 33, pp. 89, 175 (illustrated, p. 89)

  • Literature

    Lance Esplund, ""John Graham: Maverick Modernist," Review: Among His Many Roles, an Artist," Wall Stree Journal, May 17, 2017, online
    Thomas Micchelli, "John D. Graham and “Another Way of Making Modern Art,"" Hyperallergic, June 3, 2017, online (illustrated)

Property from an Esteemed Collection

173

Untitled (Face of a Woman; Portrait of Anni Albers)

signed, inscribed and dated “GRAHAM / XXXIX / MEXICO / D.F. / VII/9” lower edge
oil on canvas
25 x 19 1/2 in. (63.5 x 49.5 cm)
Painted in 1939.

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for $50,800

Contact Specialist

Avery Semjen
Associate Specialist, Head of New Now Sale 
T +1 212 940 1207
asemjen@phillips.com

New Now

New York Auction 27 September 2023