Still Nature by Agnes Martin
01 February 2020
Description

height 54,5 width 74 thickness 0,5

Provenance

unknown

Acquired from
Auction House
For sale
Yes
Answered within 21 days
By Karine SH
Feb 22, 16:44 UTC
Fair Market Value
$50 - $100 USD
Insurance Value $0 USD
What does this mean?

Dear Giorgi,

Thank you for contacting Mearto with your appraisal inquiry. So that I may best assist you, can you give me more information about your painting? Your painting can't be by the abstract painter called Agnes Martin. I am having difficulty identifying the artist who did your work. Can you give me further information?

Thank you

Karine

Giorgi buadze Feb 23, 13:02 UTC

What specific information are you interested in? if Agnes Martin isnt a author of picture, who is? and what it costs?

Karine sh Feb 24, 14:27 UTC

Dear Giorgi,

This painting seems that it could be by Ann Aves Martin whose work is reminiscent of the Colorist movement.

If you have any papers from the auction house you have purchased your work from, could you doublecheck this information, and I will give you the right estimate for your painting.

Thank you,

Karine

Giorgi buadze Feb 25, 17:34 UTC

Dear Karine,
In my opinion, for Ann Eve Martin to be painted, two initials must be outlined.
At the auction where I bought, they have no additional information.
How can I help determine an accurate author?

Karine sh Feb 27, 11:33 UTC

Dear Giorgi,

The research service at Mearto can probably research this artist's signature for you. Please contact my colleague Lindsey Bourret for further information. She can be reached at [email protected].

In the meantime, do you want me to send you an estimate for the artist called Ann Eve Martin?

Best regards,

Karine

Giorgi buadze Feb 27, 14:26 UTC

Hello! For information, maybe useful for evaluation, on the material of the work:
  Made on pressed cardboard, with cement and plaster-like paints. The artwork is a relief. Not done with ordinary oil.

Giorgi buadze Feb 27, 16:14 UTC

https://www.broadstreetreview.com/art/the_day_i_got_agnes_martin
please, see it.

Karine sh Mar 04, 11:32 UTC

Dear Giorgi,

Sorry for having taken so long to reply to your last message.

After checking the image from the link that you have kindly provided to me the other day, I am sorry to say that your painting cannot be attributed to Agnes Martin nor any other artists with the signature
’A.Martin’ without any further research.

Given the overall quality of your artwork, the estimate that I am going to give you is based on the size, composition, medium and condition of your artwork. Figures in red are also based on comparables by unknown artist offered and sold at auction in the last five years.

I know that you have been in touch with our research department so any further questions related to the identification of your painting should be sent to them directly.

Best regards,

Karine

Giorgi buadze Mar 05, 07:43 UTC

Dear Karine
As I have learned, evaluation will be done without the author.
Okay, send me a report, but I have one request if the signature studies prove Agnesa Martin's work. What will the estimated cost be? To write to me.

Karine sh Mar 05, 17:16 UTC

Dear Giorgi,

The figures in red above is the estimate for a similar work by an unknown artist offered over the last five years at auction.

In regards to works by Agnes Martin, I invite you to check the following page which will inform you about the value of her work. See:
https://www.phillips.com/Search?Search=Agnes+martin+&sbmt=

Best regards,

Karine

Giorgi buadze Mar 06, 08:15 UTC

Dear Karine
If you have the time, check out Agnesa Martin's life and work at Wikipedia.
In addition to a couple of self-portraits and a few watercolor landscapes, Martin's early works included biomorphic paintings in subdued colors made when the artist had a grant to work in Taos between 1955 and 1957. However, she did her best to seek out and destroy paintings from the years when she was taking her first steps into abstraction.[15][21]

Martin praised Mark Rothko for having "reached zero so that nothing could stand in the way of truth". Following his example Martin also pared down to the most reductive elements to encourage a perception of perfection and to emphasize transcendent reality.[22] Her signature style was defined by an emphasis upon line, grids, and fields of extremely subtle color. Particularly in her breakthrough years of the early 1960s, she created 6 × 6 foot square canvases that were covered in dense, minute and softly delineated graphite grids.[23] In the 1966 exhibition Systemic Painting at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Martin's grids were therefore celebrated as examples of Minimalist art and were hung among works by artists including Sol LeWitt, Robert Ryman, and Donald Judd.[24] While minimalist in form, however, these paintings were quite different in spirit from those of her other minimalist counterparts, retaining small flaws and unmistakable traces of the artist's hand; she shied away from intellectualism, favoring the personal and spiritual. Her paintings, statements, and influential writings often reflected an interest in Eastern philosophy, especially Taoist. Because of her work's added spiritual dimension, which became more and more dominant after 1967, she preferred to be classified as an abstract expressionist.[2][3]

Martin worked only in black, white, and brown before moving to New Mexico. The last painting before she abandoned her career, and left New York in 1967, Trumpet, marked a departure in that the single rectangle evolved into an overall grid of rectangles. In this painting the rectangles were drawn in pencil over uneven washes of gray translucent paint.[25] In 1973, she returned to art making, and produced a portfolio of 30 serigraphs, On a Clear Day.[26] During her time in Taos, she introduced light pastel washes to her grids, colors that shimmered in the changing light.[27] Later, Martin reduced the scale of her signature 72 × 72 square paintings to 60 × 60 inches[28] and shifted her work to use bands of ethereal color.[29] Another departure was a modification, if not a refinement, of the grid structure, which Martin has used since the late 1950s. In Untitled No. 4 (1994), for example, one viewed the gentle striations of pencil line and primary color washes of diluted acrylic paint blended with gesso. The lines, which encompassed this painting, were not measured by a ruler, but rather intuitively marked by the artist.[28] In the 1990s, symmetry would often give way to varying widths of horizontal bands
In 2007, Martin's Loving Love (2000) was sold for $2.95 million at Christie's, New York.[23] In 2015, Untitled #7 (1984), a white acrylic painting with geometric pencil lines, sold for $4.2 million at Phillips in New York.[47] In 2016, her Orange Grove sold at auction for $13.7 million, the same year as the Guggenheim held a retrospective of her work.

Giorgi buadze Mar 06, 08:43 UTC

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