Grace Hartigan: No Rules

Selling Exhibition | Southampton | 17 July – 8 August 2021

A trailblazer at every step of the way, Grace Hartigan was a major figure of the New York arts scene beginning in the 1940s, known for never compromising her artistic vision or creative intuition. Her friends included Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, the poet Frank O’Hara and countless other artists and writers. She was arguably the most celebrated female artist of her day, with profiles in Life magazine, Newsweek and Time and her works were placed in several important museum collections. With artworks dating from the 1940s through the 1970s, Christie’s private sales exhibition, Grace Hartigan: No Rules captures Hartigan’s radical development from abstraction to figuration, exploring the themes and techniques most important to her oeuvre, all in celebration of her fearlessness.

As Hartigan once proclaimed, ‘No rules…I must be free to paint anything I feel.’



Grace Hartigan: No Rules

Southampton | Through 8 August



Highlights

  • Grace Hartigan (1922–2008)

    America’s Bicentennial
    signed and dated 'Hartigan '76' (upper right);
    signed again, titled and dated again '"AMERICA'S BICENTENNIAL" HARTIGAN '76' (on the stretcher)
    oil on canvas
    80 x 80 in. (203.2 x 203.2 cm.)
    Painted in 1976.
    Available for Private Sale
    Price upon request

  • Grace Hartigan (1922–2008)

    Articulations
    signed and dated 'Hartigan '68' (lower center);
    signed again, titled and dated again '"ARTICULATIONS" 1968 Hartigan' (on the stretcher)
    oil on canvas
    77 ¾ x 88 ⅛ in. (197.5 x 223.8 cm.)
    Painted in 1968.
    Available for Private Sale
    Price upon request

  • Grace Hartigan (1922–2008)

    East Side Peddler
    signed and dated 'Hartigan '56' (lower right)
    oil on canvas
    29 ½ x 39 in. (74.9 x 99.1 cm.)
    Painted in 1956.
    Available for Private Sale
    Price upon request

  • Grace Hartigan (1922–2008)

    Grey Eyed Athena
    signed and dated 'Hartigan '61' (lower right)
    oil on canvas
    64 ⅛ x 49 ¾ in. (162.8 x 126.3 cm.)
    Painted in 1961.
    Available for Private Sale
    Price upon request

  • Grace Hartigan (1922–2008)

    Kansas
    signed and dated 'Hartigan '59' (lower right)
    oil on canvas
    87 ¾ x 86 ¾ in. (222.9 x 220.3 cm.)
    Painted in 1959.
    Available for Private Sale
    Price upon request

  • Grace Hartigan (1922–2008)

    The Snow Angel
    signed and dated 'Hartigan '60' (lower right);
    signed again, titled and dated again '"THE SNOW ANGEL" 1960 HARTIGAN' (on the stretcher)
    oil on canvas
    69 x 75 ¼ in. (175.2 x 191.1 cm.)
    Painted in 1960.
    Available for Private Sale
    Price upon request

  • Grace Hartigan (1922–2008)

    Still Life with Blue Wall
    signed and dated 'Hartigan 53' (lower right)
    oil on canvas
    23 ⅛ x 31 in. (58.7 x 78.7 cm.)
    Painted in 1953.
    Available for Private Sale
    Price upon request

  • Grace Hartigan (1922–2008)

    Study for Montauk Highway II
    signed twice and dated ‘Hartigan ‘57 G.H.’ (lower right)
    oil, paper collage and printed paper collage on paper
    22 ½ x 28 ½ in. (57.1 x 72.4 cm.)
    Executed in 1957.
    Available for Private Sale
    Price upon request

  • Grace Hartigan (1922–2008)

    Untitled
    signed with the artist's initials 'GH' (lower right)
    oil on paper
    14 ½ x 11 ⅜ in. (36.8 x 28.8 cm.)
    Painted in 1951.
    Available for Private Sale
    Price upon request



10 things to know about
Grace Hartigan

Grace Hartigan was arguably the most celebrated female artist of her day. Specialist Caitlin Foreht outlines what makes her oeuvre so compelling.

Exhibition information

A selection of highlights from Carpenters Workshop Gallery will also be on view.

Location
1 Pond Lane,
Southampton, NY 11968

Viewing
17 July – 8 August 2021

Tuesday–Sunday, 11am-6pm
By appointment

Contact
Tel: 212 636 2600
Southampton@christies.com

Our new space—an historic mid-century building located at 1 Pond Lane



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