Ree Morton Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Ree Morton Art Value Price Guide

Sep. 27, 2024
Ree Morton, Untitled
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Ree Morton Untitled 1972 graphite on paper 23 h x 29 w in (58 x 74 cm) Signed and dated to lower right 'Morton 72'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.
Rago Arts and Auction Center
May. 08, 2024
Ree Morton
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
American, 1936-1977 Untitled (Like Many Other Heroes...), 1976 Initialed, signed and dated Ree Morton/R.M. 1976 on the reverse Crayon, pencil and acrylic on paper 20 x 26 inches (50.8 x 66 cm) Provenance: Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich Alexander and Bonin, New York Private collection, New York (Framed dimensions: 24 x 29 1/2 x 1 inches) Sheet is hinged to backing at upper left and upper right. Spots of brown foxing throughout. Sheet is toned.
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Sep. 28, 2021
Ree Morton (American, 1936-1977) Prince and Princess from Signs of Love, 1976 (diptych)
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
Ree Morton (American, 1936-1977) Prince and Princess from Signs of Love, 1976 (diptych) wash and graphite on mixed media each titled (lower center) Each: 32 1/4 x 25 inches. Exhibited: New York, New York, New Museum, Ree Morton: A Retrospective 1971 - 1977, February 16 - April 17, 1980; Houston, Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, May 20 - June 29, 1980; Boulder, Colorado, University of Colorado Museum, Boulder; Buffalo, January 17 -March 1, 1981; New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Chicago, Illinois, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, March 15-April 19, 1981 New York, New York, Alexander and Bonin, Ree Morton: Something in the Wind, October 15-December 22, 2016
Hindman
May. 04, 2021
Ree Morton (American, 1936-1977) Regional Piece, 1976 (diptych)
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
Ree Morton (American, 1936-1977) Regional Piece, 1976 (diptych) oil on wood with celastic Each: 20 x 40 inches. Provenance: Droll/Kolbert Gallery, New York Obelisk Gallery, Boston. Massachusetts Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989 Exhibited: New York, New York, New Museum, Ree Morton: A Retrospective 1971 - 1977, February 16 - April 17, 1980; Houston, Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, May 20 - June 29, 1980; Boulder, Colorado, University of Colorado Museum, Boulder; Buffalo, January 17 -March 1, 1981; New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Chicago, Illinois, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, March 15-April 19, 1981 Lot Note: The elusive and enigmatic Ree Morton made an impactful and influential contribution to the art world, making more than the most of her woefully brief, less than a decade span of creation. Morton, rarely one for the more ordinary path, came to formal artmaking later than usual after starting a family and only drawing as ideal pursuit. An artist's artist, her unique and visionary practice layered conceptual aspects of feminism, minimalism, semiotics and regionalism, realized most recognizably as ambiguous narrative objects that straddle painting, sculpture and craft. Often cloaked in veils of sly innocence and ironic humor to disguise the sharp teeth of biting social commentary and a subversive nature at the core of the work. Morton pioneered the use of Celastic, an industrial plastic impregnated fabric originally used for theatrical prop making that can shaped when saturated and dries hard, holding form, as fine art media creating low relief curtains, flowers, ribbons and bows employed as perplexing and alluring accents and framing devices. Regional Piece, 1976 is part of a series of 12 vertical stacked horizontal seascape diptychs, many of which are held in museum collections, that comprised one of the last bodies of work she produced before her tragic death in a 1977 car accident. All painted in San Diego the Regional Piece works pair upper paintings of austere ocean sunsets above a lower paintings of a lone fish swimming at unknown depths, a speck in the vastness. Both picture planes bordered by open sculptural curtains, implying stages or windows, portals to displays, inviting the attention of an audience. Purposefully sentimental, but with a subtle edginess that avoids drifting to saccharine, thematically these works explore the existential reality of individual insignificance in the immeasurable expanse of the university or more literally as the title of the series might suggest being regionalized to a small fish in a big ocean. Regional Piece, 1976 is more overtly minimal than other examples in the series and arrestingly so, a limited palette of unmodulated complementary orange and blue applied in large passages devoid of texture express the sky water and fish, formally reading at once as a crisper version of Mark Rothko color field and more directly sideways Barnett Newman stripes, bolstering the narrative component with purely abstract aesthetics. Black and white are sparingly used as detail on the fish and dark gray flowing drapery surround both panels, a supporting grayscale elevating and clarifying the more eyecatching color focal points. Additionally, the seemingly decorative for decorations sake curtains function as a disarming dose of cheeky camp offsetting the stark seriousness of the symbolism and making a heavy topic more accessible and comprehensible. This wonderfully beguiling and encapsulating example of both the Regional Piece series and Morton's entire oeuvre was importantly included in her posthumous 1980 retrospective Ree Morton: Retrospective 1971-1977, that curated by Alan Schwartzman and Kathleen Thomas for the New Museum in New York City and traveled to institutions in Houston, Boulder, Buffalo and Chicago. Property from a Private Collection
Hindman
Nov. 03, 2015
Wash & Pencil on Paper, "The Prince," Ree Morton
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
(American, 1936-1977), appears to be unsigned. RDA#71139. Bin#35 Sight size: 30-1/2"h x 22"w
Nye & Company
Nov. 17, 2009
Ree Morton (American, 1936-1977) Untitled (Study for a sculpture), 1972; Untitled (Study for a sculpture), 1972 (2) each 15 1/8 x 22 1/4in (38.3 x 56.5cm) unframed
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Untitled (Study for a sculpture), 1972; Untitled (Study for a sculpture), 1972 (2) first inscribed extensively (upper right), signed and dated 'Morton 72' (lower right); second inscribed extensively (lower center), signed and dated 'Morton 72' (lower right) pencil and watercolor on paper each 15 1/8 x 22 1/4in (38.3 x 56.5cm) unframed
Bonhams
Nov. 15, 2008
Ree Morton (American, 1936-1977) Untitled, 1972;
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
Ree Morton (American, 1936-1977) Untitled, 1972; Watercolor on paper (framed); Signed and dated; 22 1/4'' x 14 1/2'' (sheet); Provenance: Private Collection, New York
Rago Arts and Auction Center
May. 20, 2007
Ree Morton (American, 1937-1977) Untitled; 1970; Graphite on paper (framed); Signed and dated; 10 1/2" x 10 1/2" (sight); Provenance: Brutten Herrick Collection, Philadelphia; Private Collection
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
Ree Morton (American, 1937-1977) Untitled; 1970; Graphite on paper (framed); Signed and dated; 10 1/2" x 10 1/2" (sight); Provenance: Brutten Herrick Collection, Philadelphia; Private Collection
Rago Arts and Auction Center
Apr. 24, 2004
Ree Morton, Untitled (five works on paper), 1968 graphite on paper 6" x 12", signed and dated; 1969
Est: $300 - $600
Ree Morton, Untitled (five works on paper), 1968 graphite on paper 6" x 12", signed and dated; 1969 graphite on paper, 14 1/2" x 8 1/2" signed and dated; 1970 graphite on paper 11" x 11", signed and dated; another 1970 graphite on paper, 14' x 10" signed and date, 1971 oil and pastel on ruled notebook paper, 8 1/2" x 11" signed and dated
Rago Arts and Auction Center
Apr. 24, 2004
Ree Morton, Untitled (Sullivan Series), 1977, charcoal, watercolor and gouache on paper, 27 3/4" x
Est: $250 - $500
Ree Morton, Untitled (Sullivan Series), 1977, charcoal, watercolor and gouache on paper, 27 3/4" x 39 1/4", framed
Rago Arts and Auction Center
Apr. 24, 2004
Ree Morton, Untitled, 1968, colored pencil on paper, 9 5/8" x 16", signed and dated, framed.
Est: $100 - $200
Ree Morton, Untitled, 1968, colored pencil on paper, 9 5/8" x 16", signed and dated, framed. Condition: paper is discolored along perimeter
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