Contemporary Evening Auction

Contemporary Evening Auction

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Property from a Prestigious European Collection

Agnes Martin

Earth II

Auction Closed

May 14, 12:59 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 4,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Prestigious European Collection

Agnes Martin

1912 - 2004


Earth II

signed, titled and dated 1959 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

71 ⅜ by 48 in.

181.5 by 122 cm.

Executed in 1959.

The Artist

Private Collection, New York (acquired directly from the estate of the above)

Acquired from the above in 2006 by the present owner

Walter Soppelsa, ed., A Selection from the Daros Collection, Zürich, 2012, no. 72, n.p., illustrated in color

Arne Glimcher, Agnes Martin: Paintings, Writings, Remembrances, London, 2012, p. 30, illustrated in color

Christina Bryan Rosenberger, Drawing the Line: The Early Work of Agnes Martin, Oakland, 2016, no. 77, p. 136, illustrated in color

Chelsea Weathers, ed., Agnes Martin: Independence of Mind, Santa Fe, 2022, p. 27, illustrated in color

Tiffany Bell, ed., Agnes Martin: Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings, New York, 2017 - ongoing, no. 1961.003, illustrated in color (online)

New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Paintings: Agnes Martin, Section Eleven, December 1959 - January 1960

Riehen, Fondation Beyeler, Black Sun, October 2015 - January 2016