Contemporary Curated

Contemporary Curated

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Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation

Jennifer Bartlett

Anything is Beautiful if You Say It Is

Auction Closed

September 27, 07:30 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation

Jennifer Bartlett

1941 - 2022


Anything is Beautiful if You Say It Is

oil on canvas, in 9 parts, with interlocking rolled and welded steel pipes, in 3 parts

each painting: 33 by 33 in. 83.8 by 83.8 cm.

each pipe: 8 by 36 by 31 in. 20.3 by 91.4 by 78.7 cm.

Executed in 1989.

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in February 1990 by the present owner

Glen MacLeon, "The Influence of Wallace Stevens on Contemporary Artists," The Wallace Stevens Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall 1996, p. 165

New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Jennifer Bartlett: Fire Paintings, January 1990