Mary Martin (1907-1969)

Perspex Group on Blue (E)

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Mary Martin (1907-1969)
Perspex Group on Blue (E)
signed and dated 'Mary Martin '69' (on the reverse)
Perspex relief on wood
24 x 24 x 10 in. (61 x 61 x 25.4 cm.)
Constructed in 1969.

The estate of the artist.
with Annely Juda Fine Art, London, May 2005.
Robert Devereux, his sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 November 2010, lot 44, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibition catalogue, Mary Martin, London, Tate Gallery, 1984, p. 58, no. 52, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Mary Martin, 1907-1969: the end is always to achieve simplicity, Huddersfield, Huddersfield Art Gallery, 2004, p. 47, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
A. Grieve, Constructed Abstract Art in England After the Second World War: A Neglected Avant-Garde, New Haven and London, 2005, p. 160, pl. 207.

British Council, 1st Nuremberg Biennale of Constructive Art, April - October 1969, catalogue not traced.
London, Tate Gallery, Mary Martin, October - November 1984, no. 52.
Huddersfield, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Mary Martin, 1907-1969: the end is always to achieve simplicity, October - December 2004, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, January - February 2005; Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery, March - September 2005; and Bournemouth, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, June - September 2005.

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'Establishment of a surface is the primary move, since the parting from and clinging to a surface is the essence of a relief. Then that space which lies between the surface and the highest point become a sphere of play, or conflict, between opposites, representing the desire to break away and the inability to leave.'
- Mary Martin

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