
Leonard A. Lauder, Collector
The Garden
Estimate
10,000,000 - 15,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Leonard A. Lauder, Collector
Agnes Martin
(1912 - 2004)
The Garden
signed a. martin, titled and dated '64 (on the reverse)
oil and graphite on canvas
72 by 72 in. 182.9 by 182.9 cm.
Executed in 1964.
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
Samuel Wagstaff, New York (acquired by 1972)
Salvatore Ala, Milan (acquired by 1974)
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York (acquired by 1978)
Estée Lauder Company, New York (acquired from the above in May 1979)
Acquired from the above in November 1995 by the present owner
New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, Agnes Martin, 1965
San Francisco Museum of Art, Art: An Environment for Faith, 1965, n.p., illustrated (detail)
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Multiplicity, 1966, no. 20, n.p., illustrated (detail)
Kassel, Neue Galerie Schöne Aussicht and Kassel, Museum Fridericianum Friedrichsplatz, Documenta 5: Befragung der Realität—Bildwelten heute, 1972, p. 43
Milan, Galleria Salvatore Ala, Agnes Martin, 1974
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Fundamentele schilderkunst/Fundamental Painting, 1975, no. 4, p. 76
New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, Agnes Martin: Drawings of the Sixties, 1978
New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, The Sixties Revisited, 1979
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Museum; Miami, Center for the Fine Arts; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Santa Fe, Museum of Fine Arts, Agnes Martin, 1992-94, p. 183 (traveled to all except Madrid and Sante Fe)
Lucy Lippard, "New York Letter," Art International, vol. 6, no. 9, September 1965, p. 60
Lizzie Borden "Cosmologies," Artforum, vol. 11, no. 2, October 1972, p. 49
Corinna Ferrari, "Mostre D'Arte: Agnes Martin, Galleria Ala, Milano, Novembre 1974," Casabella, no. 398, February 1975, p. 14, illustrated
Dinitia Smith, "Art Fever," New York Magazine, 20 April 1987, p. 42, illustrated in color (detail)
Tiffany Bell, ed., Agnes Martin: Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings, New York 2017 - ongoing, no. 1964.012, illustrated in color, online (accessed 13 October 2025)
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