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AGNES MARTIN (1912-2004)

Lot 14
12.05.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 14 | AGNES MARTIN (1912-2004)
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$ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
AGNES MARTIN (1912-2004)
The Peach
signed, titled and dated ‘”The Peach” a. martin ‘64’ (on the reverse)
oil and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 in. (182.9 x 182.9 cm.)
Executed in 1964.




Provenance

Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York
William J. Hokin, Chicago
Anon. sale; Christie’s, New York, 7 November 1990, lot 19
Private collection, Tokyo
PaceWildenstein, New York and C&M Arts, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2001



Literature

L. Cooke and M. Govan, Dia Beacon, New York, 2003, pp. 206-209 (illustrated).
P. Schmidt, A. Tietenberg and R. Wollheim, eds., Patterns in Design, Art and Architecture, Basel, 2005, p. 190 (illustrated).
N. Princenthal, “Off the Grid: Louise Bourgeois’s Recent Drawings,” ArtUS, vol. 7, March-April 2005, p. 20 (illustrated).
C. Finch, “The Carnival Stops for a Gray Day,” Artnet News, 20 November 2006, digital (illustrated).
T. Barrett, Why Is That Art?, New York, 2008, p. 119, fig. 4.2 (illustrated).
M. Schieren, Agnes Martin: Transkulturelle Übersetzung, Munich, 2016, p. 305, no. 189 (illustrated).
T. Bell, ed., Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings, digital, ongoing, no. 1964.006 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, April-June 1985, p. 77 (illustrated).
Dia Beacon, …going forward into unknown territory… Agnes Martin’s Early Paintings 1957-67, May 2004-April 2005, n.p., no. 21 (illustrated on the exhibition brochure).
Dia Beacon, Agnes Martin: “…unknown territory…” Paintings from the 1960s, April-November 2005.
New York, Craig F. Starr Gallery, Surface / Infinity: Vija Celmins, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, April-May 2012, n.p., no. 12 (illustrated).
East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum, Aspects of Minimalism: Selections from Private East End Collections, August-October 2016.
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