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Agnes Martin
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Description
- Agnes Martin
- Wood
- signed, titled and dated 64; signed and dated 1966 on the backing
- ink and grey wash on paper
- image: 8 by 7 7/8 in. 20.3 by 20 cm.
- sheet: 12 by 12 in. 30.5 by 30.5 cm.
- Executed in 1964-66.
Provenance
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in July 1970
Acquired by the present owner from the above in July 1970
Exhibited
New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, Agnes Martin: Drawings, 1961-1966, May 1970
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Drawings, 1963-1973, May - July 1973
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Drawings, 1963-1973, May - July 1973
Literature
``My formats are square, but the grids, never are absolutely square; they are rectangles, a little bit off the square, making a sort of contradiction, a dissonance, … When I cover the square surface with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square, destroys its power.’’
(Agnes Martin in Dieter Schwarz, Agnes Martin: Writings, 1992, p. 29)