Michael (Corinne) West

1908, United States - 1991, United States

Michael (Corinne) West
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, 1967
Oil on canvas
148 151.8 × 122.2 cm
© Michael (Corinne) West Estate. Courtesy of Hollis Taggart Gallery.

Provenance
Private Collection (acquired from the estate of the artist in 1991)
Private Collection
Christie's, New York, First Open | Online 17 July 2019, Lot 158
Hollis Taggart, New York

Exhibitions
Epilogue: Michael West’s Monochrome Climax, organized by Hollis Taggart, New York, April 29–May 31, 2021

Literature/Press
“Epilogue: Michael West’s Monochrome Climax,” essay by Ellen G. Landau, in Epilogue: Michael West’s Monochrome Climax, New York: Hollis Taggart, 2021, illustrated in color, pp. 42–43

Michael (Corinne) West
Franconia Notch, 1965
Oil and collage on canvas
151 125.1 × 91.4 cm
© Michael (Corinne) West Estate. Courtesy of Hollis Taggart Gallery.

Provenance
The Michael (Corinne) West Estate
Hollis Taggart, New York
Private collection, Florida (Purchased from above, 2019) 
Hollis Taggart, New York

Exhibitions
Space Poetry: The Action Paintings of Michael West, Hollis Taggart, New York, November 7, 2019–January 4, 2020

Literature/Press
Grace Edquist, “Remembering Michael West, a Forgotten Founder of Abstract Expressionism.” Vogue (New York), November 26, 2019, illustrated, n. p., vogue.com/article/michael-west-space-poetry-exhibition
Ellen G. Landau, Space Poetry: The Action Paintings of Michael West, New York: Hollis Taggart, 2019, illustrated, pp. 15, 54

Michael (Corinne) West
Dagger of Light, 1951
Oil, aluminium paint, and sand on canvas
139.7 x 88.9 cm
© Michael (Corinne) West Estate. Courtesy of Hollis Taggart Gallery.

Provenance
The Artist
Stuart Friedman
Hollis Taggart Galleries, Inc., New York
Private collection

Exhibitions
Uptown Galleries, New York, Michael West: Paintings, November 1 - 15, 1957, no. 1. Pollock-Krasner House
Study Center, East Hampton, NY, Michael West, Michael West, Painter-Poet, August 1 - October 26, 1996

Literature/Press
Mills, Clark, Michael West: Paintings (New York: Uptown Galleries, 1957), comm., n.p. Marter, Joan, ed. Women of Abstract Expressionism (New Haven; Yale UP with the Denver Art Museum, 2016), illus., 25