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Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation

Jennifer Bartlett

Anything is Beautiful if You Say It Is

Auction Closed

September 27, 07:30 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation

Jennifer Bartlett

1941 - 2022


Anything is Beautiful if You Say It Is

oil on canvas, in 9 parts, with interlocking rolled and welded steel pipes, in 3 parts

each painting: 33 by 33 in. 83.8 by 83.8 cm.

each pipe: 8 by 36 by 31 in. 20.3 by 91.4 by 78.7 cm.

Executed in 1989.

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in February 1990 by the present owner

New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Jennifer Bartlett: Fire Paintings, January 1990

Glen MacLeon, "The Influence of Wallace Stevens on Contemporary Artists," The Wallace Stevens Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall 1996, p. 165