Lot 11: MARY MARTIN

1907-1969 CLIMBING FORM 1954-62 signed twice and dated '62 on the reverse wood, perspex and stainless steel 55 by 34cm.; 21ž by 13Âin.

London, Redfern Gallery, 9 Abstract Artists, 11th - 29th January 1955, cat. no.24 (possibly); Eindhoven, Stedlijk van Abbemuseum, Kompas II, 20th October - 10th December 1962, cat. no.53; London, Molton & Lords Gallery, Mary Martin, February 1964, cat. no.2; Oxford, Oxford Museum of Art, Kenneth and Mary Martin, 1970, cat. no.6, where lent by Kenneth Martin, with Arts Council Tour to Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds and seven further destinations; London, Tate, Mary Martin, 3rd October - 25th November 1984, cat. no.9, illustrated p.34; Bottrop, Germany, Josef Albers Museum, Kenneth und Mary Martin, 5th March - 16th April 1989, cat. no.38; London, Annely Juda, Kenneth and Mary Martin, 11th September - 31st October 1987, cat. no.10.

Margaret Garlake, New Art, New World: British Art in Post-War Society, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1998, p.114, illustrated pl.39; Alastair Grieve, Constructed Abstract Art in England After the Second World War, A Neglected Avant-Garde, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2005, p.154, illustrated.

The Estate of the Artist Annely Juda, London, where acquired by the present owner, July 1989

'The end is always to achieve simplicity but the means and processes are often complex because one is not repeating a performance of something which has gone before. Each work is a fresh exploration, sometimes along a path opened up by the immediately previous work, but sometimes it is something that has waited to be expressed for a long time.' (Martin, quoted in an unpublished, handwritten manuscript, 1957, quoted in Mary Martin,Tate Gallery catalogue, London, 1984, p.28)