ID 846042
Lot 321 | GRACE HARTIGAN (1922-2008)
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
Oranges No. 3 (What Fire Murmurs Its Sedition)
signed ‘Hartigan’ (lower right)
oil on paper
44 3/4 x 35 1/4 in. (113.5 x 89.4 cm.)
Painted in 1953.
Provenance
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Ann Arbor
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007
Literature
I. Sandler, The New York School, The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties, New York, 1978, p. 40, no. 12 (illustrated).
S. L. Kleppe, Ekphrasis in American Poetry, The Colonial Period to the 21st Century, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2015, p. 101 (illustrated on the cover).
Exhibited
Saratoga Springs, Skidmore College, Schick Art Gallery, Grace Hartigan and The Poets: Paintings and Prints, March-April 1993, pp. 18-19, no. 2 (illustrated).
Post lot text
This work is accompanied by the original loan request letter and catalogue from the 1993 exhibition organized by Terence Diggory: Grace Hartigan and The Poets: Paintings and Prints.
| Artist: | Grace Hartigan (1922 - 2008) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Artist: | Grace Hartigan (1922 - 2008) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
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