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GRACE HARTIGAN (1922-2008)
Maryland
signed and dated ‘Hartigan ‘61’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
56 x 79 in. (142 x 201 cm.)
Painted in 1961.

Provenance

Gres Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Beatrice and Hart Perry, Baltimore
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2015

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"The ‘look’ [of the paintings] is the result of a completely new (to me) attitude toward emotion. I have left expressionism, and although the new paintings have feeling, the emotion is that which each painting demands…Left behind is the ‘anguish.’ I now hope to triumph, to bring to each painting as much clarity, beauty and even ecstasy as I am able. The scream has become a song." (G. Hartigan, quoted in Hartigan ‘62, exh. cat., Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1962, n.p.).

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