$ 20,000

Untitled (1976) comes from one of the more than 200 notebooks and sketchbooks that Parsons filled over the course of her career, and at its left edge bears the line of holes characteristic of spiral binding. The sketchbook was Parsons’ constant travel companion and a fundamental part of her artmaking practice and, as Lawrence Alloway observed, “A geometric zig-zag would be snatched out of a house we glimpsed; smudges of brown were suggested by a hillside; blue tatters would record a moment’s weather; a white would be suggested by a duck in a pond. As the diverse marks joined on the paper they would be, not descriptive of any one scene, but evocative of place, light, weather generally.” Untitled is suggestive of an inky atmosphere, whether sky or sea, and realized in highly saturated color and rhythmic brushstrokes facilitated by the fluidity of the paint.