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AGNES PELTON (1881-1961)

Lot 26
11.05.2023 07:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 1 500 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 949541
Lot 26 | AGNES PELTON (1881-1961)
Estimate value
$ 1 500 000 – 2 500 000
AGNES PELTON (1881-1961)

The Fountains

signed and dated 'Agnes Pelton 1926' (lower right); signed again and titled twice 'The Fountains Agnes Pelton The Fountains' (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

36 1/8 x 32 in. (91.8 x 81.3 cm.)

Painted in 1926.





Provenance

Ralph and Beatrice French, La Jolla, circa 1958

Martin Diamond Fine Arts, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1985



Literature

A. L. Hopkins, "Story Of Well Known Artist," Keyport Weekly, 17 December 1926, n.p.

"Review," New York City Post, 24 April 1926, n.p. (illustrated).

"Agnes Pelton, Argent Galleries," American Art News, 21 February 1931, n.p.

Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1977, p. 99.

American Women Artists 1830-1930, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1987, no. 80.

G. Vicario, “Out of the Margins: The Reemergence of Agnes Pelton,” PhxArt, April-July 2019, p. 18.

C. Wyma, "Divine Reality," Artforum, vol. 58, no. 7, March 2020, n.p. (illustrated).

J. Felsenthal, "Agnes Pelton Finally Gets Her Due With a Major New Show at the Whitney," Vogue, 10 March 2020, digital.

A. McCoy, "Agnes Pelton," The Brooklyn Rail, May 2020, p. 79.

M. Coates, The Pelton Papers, Berkeley, 2020, p. 229.

C. Knight, "The glorious mysteries of Agnes Pelton's desert paintings, on view in Palm Springs," Los Angeles Times, 14 April 2021, digital.

G. Vicario, Agnes Pelton, Munich, 2022, pp. 10, 18, 52 and 60, pl. 1 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, The Whitney Galleries, 12th Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by the Members of the Club, February-March 1927, n.p., no. 152.

Brooklyn Museum, NAWP&S Show, April-May 1926.

New York, Montross Gallery, Abstractions by Agnes Pelton, November 1929, no. 1 (illustrated on the cover).

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 125th Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, January-March 1930, p. 39, no. 270.

New York, Argent Galleries, Agnes Pelton, February-March 1931, n.p., no. 12.

Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum; San Diego Museum of Art and Dallas, Southern Methodist University, Meadows Museum, American Women Artists, 1830-1930, April 1987-April 1988, no. 80.

Fremont, Ohlone College Art Gallery, Agnes Pelton, October-November 1989.

Palm Springs Desert Museum; Montclair Art Museum; Water Mill, Parrish Art Museum; Logan, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University; Malibu, Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University and Oakland Museum, Agnes Pelton: Poet of Nature, February 1995-October 1996, p. 48, no. 15.

Costa Mesa, Orange County Museum of Art, Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Miller Pierce, May-September 2009, pp. 50 and 54, fig. 22 (illustrated).

Phoenix Art Museum; Santa Fe, New Mexico Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Palm Springs Art Museum, Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist, March 2019-September 2021, pp. 26, 45, 72-73 and 201 (illustrated).



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