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Mary Adela Martin AUCTION RECORDS
1907 - 1969. Known for: Geometric abstract painting.
'The constructions such as I seek to make are based on implications of movement and infinity by positive and negative means'. Mary Martin, statement in Structure, Amsterdam, 1962. Mary Martin... Read full biography
'The constructions such as I seek to make are based on implications of movement and infinity by positive and negative means'. Mary Martin, statement in Structure, Amsterdam, 1962. Mary Martin followed her first abstract painting in 1950 with her first experiment in three-dimensional abstraction... Read full biography
'The constructions such as I seek to make are based on implications of movement and infinity by positive and negative means'. Mary Martin, statement in Structure, Amsterdam, 1962. Mary Martin followed her first abstract painting in 1950 with her first experiment in three-dimensional abstraction when she made Columbarium (Estate of the Artist) in 1951, the same year that her husband Kenneth Martin had made his first mobile sculpture. He described the inspiration for their move to abstraction... Read full biography
'The constructions such as I seek to make are based on implications of movement and infinity by positive and negative means'. Mary Martin, statement in Structure, Amsterdam, 1962. Mary Martin followed her first abstract painting in 1950 with her first experiment in three-dimensional abstraction when she made Columbarium (Estate of the Artist) in 1951, the same year that her husband Kenneth Martin had made his first mobile sculpture. He described the inspiration for their move to abstraction that year, 'I spent a day at the East End home of Nigel Henderson. Eduardo Paolozzi was there and we went to his studio nearby. Told me about killed plaster - gave me some aluminium and said "Make a mobile Kenneth." Told Mary all about this. Mary made... Read full biography
'The constructions such as I seek to make are based on implications of movement and infinity by positive and negative means'. Mary Martin, statement in Structure, Amsterdam, 1962. Mary Martin followed her first abstract painting in 1950 with her first experiment in three-dimensional abstraction when she made Columbarium (Estate of the Artist) in 1951, the same year that her husband Kenneth Martin had made his first mobile sculpture. He described the inspiration for their move to abstraction that year, 'I spent a day at the East End home of Nigel Henderson. Eduardo Paolozzi was there and we went to his studio nearby. Told me about killed plaster - gave me some aluminium and said "Make a mobile Kenneth." Told Mary all about this. Mary made Columbarium in a baking tin as instructed, and never looked... Read full biography
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