Contemporary Evening Auction
Contemporary Evening Auction
Property from a Prestigious European Collection
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
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