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Martin Ramirez's entire oeuvre was created in California institutions during the 1950s and 1960s, where he began making his drawings and collages from scavenged scraps of paper, held together with potato starch and spit. Marked by a reverberating and repetitive line, his drawings have the obsessive quality of Louise Bourgeois's contemporaneous drawings. Of the 300 plus extant works, the most recurring images are the horse and rider (lot 16) and trains (lots 12 and 13), potent symbols of the freedom and escape that were denied to him.
PROPERTY FROM THE ROBERT M. GREENBERG COLLECTION
MARTIN RAMIREZ (1885-1960)
Alamentosa
Details
MARTIN RAMIREZ (1885-1960)
Alamentosa
colored pencil, collage and watercolor on paper
80¼ x 34½ in. (204 x 88 cm.)
Executed circa 1953.
Alamentosa
colored pencil, collage and watercolor on paper
80¼ x 34½ in. (204 x 88 cm.)
Executed circa 1953.
Provenance
Nielsen Gallery, Boston
Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia
Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia
Exhibited
Newark Museum, A World of Their Own: 20th Century American Folk Art, January-May 1995.
Philadelphia, Janet Fleisher Gallery.
Boston, Nielsen Gallery.
Philadelphia, Janet Fleisher Gallery.
Boston, Nielsen Gallery.