LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and collage on canvas

Measurements:

55.00 in. (139.70 cm.) (height) by 71.25 in. (180.98 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 50; signed twice, titled twice and dated 50 on the stretcher

Exhibited:

New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, . Grace Hartigan , January 1951. Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, . The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York , May - September 1980, p. 56, no. 10, illustrated . Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne Museum of Art; Athens, Georgia Museum of Art; and Charlotte, Mint Museum of Art, . Grace Hartigan: Thirty Years of Painting , February - July 1981, no. 3, illustrated. New York, Hollis Taggart Galleries, . Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism , April - May 2007, p. 65, no. 17, illustrated in color

Literature:

Robert Saltonstall Mattison, . Grace Hartigan: A Painter's World , New York, 1990, p. 13 (text), p. 15, no. 2, illustrated in color, and p. 18 (text). Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, . The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000 , New York, 1999, p. 43, no. 51, illustrated in color. Marika Herskovic, Ed., . New York School, Abstract Expressionists: Artists Choice by Artists , New Jersey, 2000, p. 175, illustrated in color

Provenance:

The Artist. C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore. Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York. Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2006