Marsden Hartley’s New Mexico Recollection No. 8 fetches US$1,143,500
Bidding closed on 1 May through Bonhams in New York
Created in Berlin in 1923, this painting diverges from Marsden Hartley’s earlier, more naturalistic renderings of the American Southwest. Instead, it presents a landscape distilled from emotion, characterised by a sombre palette and foreboding forms. The composition, with its heavy, looming clouds and stark, twisted vegetation, transforms the familiar into the enigmatic,
