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Inv. n°: CL913

Sacrificial Portrait

Abstract Expressionism.

h. 198.12 x w. 119.38 cm
1958
Oil, wood, metal and canvas

Provenance

  • The artist
  • Sold by the Martha Edelheit Foundation with Firestone Gallery, New York
  • Acquired at Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, 2020

Publications

  • Eleven from the Reuben Gallery, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1965-01
  • R. Middleman (ed.), Radical Eroticism: Women, Art, and Sex in the 1960s, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2014, p. 70
  • Martha Edelheit flesh Walls: Tales from the 60s, Eric Firestone Press, New York, 2018, p. 8
  • Apollo Art Magazine: Maggie Gray, Women artists make a radical mess at the Whitechapel Gallery, February 16, 2023, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.apollo-magazine.com/women-artists-abstract-expressionism-whitechapel-gallery/
  • "Action, Gesture, Paint: Whitechapel Gallery's explosion of colour", gowithYamo, UK, February 15, 2023, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.gowithyamo.com/blog/action-gesture-paint-whitechapel-gallerys-explosion-of-colour
  • Olivia McEwan, "A Women’s History of Global Abstraction", Hyperallergic, March 7, 2023, [On-line]. Available at: https://hyperallergic.com/805770/a-womens-history-of-global-abstraction-whitechapel-gallery/
  • White Chapel, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Action, Geste, Peinture : Femmes dans l’abstraction, une histoire mondiale 1940-1970, Bice Curiger, 2023, p. 160

Exhibitions

  • Martha Edelheit, Reuben Gallery, New York, USA, May 20, 1960 — June 9, 1960
  • Eleven from the Reuben Gallery, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA, January 6, 1965 — January 28, 1965
  • Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, February 7, 2023 — May 14, 2023
  • Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France, June 4, 2023 — October 22, 2023
  • Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Stry of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, December 1, 2023 — March 1, 2024
  • FAMM (Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins), Mougins, France, June 1, 2025 — May 1, 2026

© Adagp, Paris, 2022

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