Time to Save Artist: Audrey Flack (American, born 1931, B.F.A. 1952)

1979

Modern and Contemporary Art

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design

Medium

Acrylic and oil on canvas

Dimensions

80 × 64 in. (203.2 × 162.6 cm)
framed: 84 × 67 1/2 × 2 in. (213.4 × 171.5 × 5.1 cm)

Credit Line

Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund

Accession Number

2021.17.1

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, Friday, November 11, 1988, lot 219; Sale, Christie's, New York, Wednesday, November 13, 1991, lot 202; Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, acquired from the artist. Private Collection, New York. Gary Snyder Project Space, New York, by 2010; sold to Private Collection, New York, February 2011; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2020
Bibliography

  • Audrey Flack, Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack, a Retrospective, 1950–1990, ed. Thalia Gouma-Peterson (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1992), 146–48, ill.

Object copyright
Copyright Audrey Flack
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

still lifes

Subject

Women artists birds (animals) butterflies clocks flowers (plants) fruit (plant components) hourglasses skulls (skeleton components)

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