Contemporary Art Online | New York
Contemporary Art Online | New York
GRACE HARTIGAN | AUGUST
Lot Closed
October 2, 05:05 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
GRACE HARTIGAN
1922 - 2008
AUGUST
signed, dated ‘60 and inscribed W.H.
oilstick on paper
Sheet: 28½ by 22½ in. (72.4 by 57.2 cm.)
Framed: 36 by 30¼ in. (91.5 by 76.7 cm.)
Collection of Larry Aldrich, Connecticut
Sotheby’s, New York, Arcade Fine Arts: Old Master to Contemporary, 30 June 2004, Lot 426
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Grace Hartigan was a second-generation American Abstract Expressionist painter and member of the New York School. In explaining the content and purpose of her work, Hartigan once said: “perhaps the subject of my art is like the definition of humor—emotional pain remembered in tranquility.” Hartigan painted intensely colored, gestural figures, inspired by coloring books, film, canonical painting and advertising.