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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, 16th February 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, 15th February 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, 7th March 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, 20th May 1960 — 9th June 1960
Eleven from the Reuben Gallery, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA, 6th January 1965 — 28th January 1965
Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, 7th February 2023 — 14th May 2023
Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France, 4th June 2023 — 22nd October 2023
Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Stry of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, December 2023 — March 2024

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Sacrificial Portrait Martha Edelheit

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