Lempertz · Lot 420
Untitled
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Ohne Titel
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2021-12-04
Published result : 23750 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 10000
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Marcia Hafif
Born : 1929Died : 2018Documented citizenships : United States
Two reference points shed light on Marcia Hafif’s approach: in retrospect, she identifies certain works as belonging to «minimal pop», while her painting becomes monochrome at another stage in her career. After studying at Pomona College, she graduated there in 1951. In December 1961, she moved to Italy, where she lived until 1969; in Rome, she was part of the Italian avant-garde and formed a particularly close bond with Carla Accardi. Among the works she associates with «minimal pop», she cites 84. and 123., among others.
After returning to California, she undertook a course of study at the University of California, Irvine, where Robert Irwin and Craig Kauffman taught, and temporarily turned away from painting in favour of film, photography and sound installation. She moved to New York in 1971 and joined the Sonnabend Gallery in 1973; during this period, her painting became monochrome. In 1978, she published «Beginning Again» in Artforum, an article on the future of abstract art. Works listed by the Art Institute of Chicago include March 8, 1972, Mass Tone: Manganese Blue (1974) and Mass Tone Painting: Alizarin Crimson, April 24, 1974.
Hafif returned to California in 1999. In 2015, the Laguna Art Museum presented Marcia Hafif, the inventory: painting, an exhibition described as her first retrospective, which was subsequently shown in Switzerland. The collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo includes Untitled (1978), a watercolour on paper, and French Painting Terraile (1990), an oil painting on canvas.
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11auction references
3auction houses
5documented results with prices
Germann · Koller · Lempertz
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Works recorded at auction
Lempertz · Lot 138
Heliogen Blue
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Heliogen Blue
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2020-12-08
Published result : 27500 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 20000
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Lempertz · Lot 685
HELIOGEN Blue
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
HELIOGEN Blue
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2018-12-01
Published result : 12400 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 7000
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Lempertz · Lot 903
Indian Yellow
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Indian Yellow
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2018-06-02
Published result : 18600 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 8000
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Lempertz · Lot 904
Permanent Red Dark (A)
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Permanent Red Dark (A)
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2018-06-02
Published result : 19840 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 10000
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Germann
Untitled, 1976
Pencil drawing
Original catalogue wording
Untitled, 1976
Bleistiftzeichnung.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Koller
Flesh. 2000/01.
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Flesh. 2000/01.
oil on canvas
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Koller
French Painting: Barre. 1991.
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
French Painting: Barre. 1991.
oil on canvas
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Koller
Greenish-blue. 1988.
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Greenish-blue. 1988.
oil on canvas
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Germann
Indian Yellow, Bohemian Green Earth, 2001
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Indian Yellow, Bohemian Green Earth, 2001
Öl auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Germann
Red Lead (Mineral Feuerrot), 1991
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Red Lead (Mineral Feuerrot), 1991
Öl auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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