Betty Parsons - New Now New York Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
    Private Collection, New York
    Doyle, New York, May 20, 2008, lot 2167
    Spanierman Modern, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owners

  • Exhibited

    New York, Marisa del Re Gallery, Found Objects, June 16–September 5, 1983
    New York, Spanierman Modern, Totem Materia: Sculptures and Paintings by Betty Parsons, September 10–October 11, 2008, fig. 1, p. 13 (illustrated, p. 1)

  • Literature

    John Russell, "Art: Six Painters at Hudson Museum," The New York Times, vol. CXXXII, no. 45,733, July 8, 1983, p. C14

Property from the Collection of Pamela K. and William A. Royall Jr.

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Totem-Materia-R

signed, titled and dated "TOTEM-MATERIA-R Betty B Parsons 1980" on the reverse
acrylic on found wood and metal plates with nails
30 x 18 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (76.2 x 46.4 x 8.3 cm)
Executed in 1980.

This work will be included in the forthcoming online Catalogue Raisonné of the artist's work, currently being prepared by the Betty Parsons Foundation.

Estimate
$6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for $27,720

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New York Auction 28 September 2021