Large format version of the painting "Untitled no 39" with some formal and chromatic variations.In the exhibition "Fundamental Painting" Agnès Martin was represented by old paintings. She moved to New Mexico in 1967; where she lived in contemplation; withdrawn from the world. When asked later what she wanted to express with her paintings; she replied; “Beauty; innocence; and happiness; I would like all to represent that. Exaltation. No sentimentality; she hastened to add; but universal emotions; like those in music.

She pleaded for calm; intuition; the expectation of inspiration: “Art founded on ideas gives birth to ideas; but art born from inspiration awakens feelings of happiness; innocence and happiness. of beauty. "

About Agnès Martin; Tony Godfrey “Painting Today”