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PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE

Entries in Esthetic Sincerity (1)

Monday
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Painting of the Day, December 5, 2011

By Donna Poulton

"It is not a country of light on things. It is a country of things in light." – Marsden Hartley

Modernist artist Marsden Hartley painted this still life of the New Mexico landscape glimpsed through his window in 1919. Reference to the land and its people can be seen centered in the composition. The blooming cactus, growing in a Santa Clara pot, sits atop an American Indian blanket on the table. This painting, estimated to sell at between  $7-$900,000, sold for a staggering $3,218,500 at a recent Sotheby’s Auction.

Credit ArtFixDaily.com

Marsden Hartley, Untitled (Still Life), 1919, oil on board, 32 x 28 in.