Agnes Martin (1912-2004), Words

Agnes Martin (1912-2004)
Words
titled 'WORDS' (on the stretcher)
ink and graphite on paper mounted on canvas
24 x 24in. (61 x 61cm.)
Executed in 1961

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Provenance
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York.
John Gordon, Palm Beach.
Pace Gallery, New York.
Paul F. Walter, New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 17 May 2000, lot 60.
Private Collection, Korea.
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco.
Vivian Horan Fine Arts, New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 15 May 2008, lot 117.
Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature
C. Naylor and G. P-Orridge (eds.), Contemporary Artists, London 1977 (illustrated, p. 617).
F. Esterly, "Agnes Martin retrospective at the Whitney Museum" in Staten Island Advance, 24 December 1992 (illustrated).
J. Auer, "Octogenarian Martin's Abstracts Make Strong but Subtle Statements" in Milwaukee Journal, 21 February 1993 (illustrated).
H.L. Kohen, "Exhibition is Martin's Masterpiece" in Miami Herald, 23 May 1993 (illustrated).
C. Humblet, The New American Abstraction 1950-1970, vol. 2, Milan 2003 (illustrated, p. 1242).
C. de Zegher and H. Teicher (eds.), 3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz and Agnes Martin, exh. cat., New York, The Drawing Center, 2005 (illustrated, p. 178).
M. Schieren, Agnes Martin: Transkulturelle Übersetzung, Munich 2016 (illustrated, p. 261).

Exhibited
New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Agnes Martin: Paintings, 1961 (detail illustrated on the exhibition poster).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, A Decade of American Drawings: 1955-1965, 1965 (illustrated, p. 36).
Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Agnes Martin, 1973 (illustrated, p. 11).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Agnes Martin, 1992-1994, p. 185 (illustrated, p. 127). This exhibition later travelled to Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Museum; Florida, Center for the Fine Arts; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Agnes Martin, 2008, p. 22, no. 14 (illustrated in colour, p. 14).
Moscow, Gagosian Gallery, Red October Chocolate Factory, For What You are About to Receive, 2008 (illustrated in colour, p. 87).
London, Tate Modern, Agnes Martin, 2015-2017 (illustrated in colour, p. 234; detail illustrated, p. 239). This exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.