Agnes Martin
Happy Holiday, 2001
acrylic and graphite on canvas
video link with front and back;
https://vimeo.com/790005903
video link with front and back;
https://vimeo.com/790005903
60 x 60 inches
152.4 by 152.4 cm
152.4 by 152.4 cm
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Agnes Martin’s practice can be divided into two clear phases: first, the paintings she created up until 1967 when she left New York and embarked upon a five year hiatus...
Agnes Martin’s practice can be divided into two clear phases: first, the paintings she created up until 1967 when she left New York and embarked upon a five year hiatus from painting; and second, the work that she began to create in New Mexico from 1972 until her death in Taos in 2004. Martin was deeply influenced by Taoism, Zen Buddhism, and the airy desert environment in which she lived,
This late painting of Martin’s second career phase, although rooted in her innate sensibilities, is representative of the structure of the canvas and the use of color in her late works. Martin maintained the logic of the grid but also embraced purely parallel lines of color and focused on the prismatic nuance of a more painterly approach, intent on defeating the geometric aggression of the square.
This late painting of Martin’s second career phase, although rooted in her innate sensibilities, is representative of the structure of the canvas and the use of color in her late works. Martin maintained the logic of the grid but also embraced purely parallel lines of color and focused on the prismatic nuance of a more painterly approach, intent on defeating the geometric aggression of the square.
Provenance
The ArtistPace Wildenstein Gallery, New York
Private collection, Europe
Exhibitions
Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico, Taos. Agnes Martin: Paintings from 2001, 23 March - 5 June 2002.Literature
Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World. Film. Produced and directed by Mary Lance. Corrales, New Mexico: New Deal Films, 2003.Tiffany Bell, ed., Agnes Martin: Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings, New York, 2017 - ongoing, no. 2001.017,