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Young Louis
1984 · Oil on canvas
72 x 72 in. (182.9 x 182.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Grace Hartigan
1922–2008
PaintingAbstract ExpressionismExpressionismColor Field
Representation
None documented
12
Institutional Exhibitions
62
Works in Collection
103
Assets Indexed
4
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Cultural Positioning
Movements
- • Abstract Expressionism
- • Expressionism
- • Color Field
- • Figuration
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Tatyana Grosman Gallery Inaugural Installation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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For 25 Years: Prints from ULAE
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1982
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Younger Abstract Expressionists of the Fifties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
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Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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Frank O'Hara/In Memory of My Feelings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967–1968
About
Why this artist matters now
Grace Hartigan was an American abstract expressionist painter whose large-scale canvases combined gestural brushwork with bold color fields and compositional urgency. Active from the 1950s onward, she was among the few women painters in the postwar New York School, developing a practice rooted in spontaneous action painting while maintaining structural clarity. Her work oscillated between pure abstraction and figuration, often incorporating references to art history and urban experience. Hartigan exhibited widely and maintained an independent artistic voice distinct from her male contemporaries.
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Movement
Abstract Expressionism
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
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Artworks (62)
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Movements and affiliations
Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
Market
Auction sale history
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Auction History
Range: $3,500 – $1,380,000
| Work | Auction House | Date | Estimate | Hammer Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christie's | May 2026 | $50,000 – $70,000 | Unsold | |
| Christie's | Nov 2025 | $40,000 – $60,000 | Unsold | |
| Christie's | Feb 2025 | $70,000 – $100,000 | Unsold | |
| Christie's | Feb 2025 | $70,000 – $100,000 | Unsold | |
| Christie's | Nov 2024 | $500,000 – $700,000 | Unsold | |
| Christie's | Jul 2024 | $50,000 – $70,000 | $63,000 | |
| Christie's | Jul 2023 | $30,000 – $50,000 | $201,600 | |
| Christie's | Jul 2023 | $8,000 – $12,000 | $10,080 | |
| Christie's | May 2023 | $100,000 – $150,000 | Unsold | |
| Christie's | Nov 2022 | $200,000 – $300,000 | $327,600 |
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