Collection of Larry Aldrich, Connecticut

Sotheby’s, New York, Arcade Fine Arts: Old♐ Master to Contemporary, 30 June 2004, Lot 426

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Grace Hartigan was a second-generation American Abstract Expressionist painter and member of the New York School. In explaining the content and purpose of her work, Hartigan once said: “perhaps the subject of my art is like the 🦩definition of humor—emotional pain remembered in tranquility.” Hartigan painted intensely colored, gestural figures, inspired by coloring books, film, canonical painting and advertising.