Mary Abbott, The Kiss (Kiss Me Dear), 1957–59

Mary Abbott 1921-2019

The Kiss (Kiss Me Dear), 1957–59

Oil on canvas and collage

70¾ x 95⅜ inches
179.7 x 242.3 cm

Signed at lower left: Abbott; inscribed on verso: Red Plum / 1957; inscribed twice with the artist's inventory number on verso and stretcher: MAC 1-144

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Provenance

The artist; to
Estate of the artist, 2019 until the present

Exhibitions

The Signa Gallery, East Hampton, New York, Third Exhibition, August 21–September 20, 1959
Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, Mary Abbott: To Draw Imagination, May 9-June 28, 2025

Literature

Letter from Mary Abbott to Philip Pavia, July 1959

Philip Pavia, ed., It Is 4, Autumn 1959, illus. p. 46

Helen A. Harrison, East Hampton Avant-Garde: A Salute to the Signa Gallery, 1957–1960, East Hampton: Guild Hall Museum, 1990, p. 56, illus. in a photograph

Gwen Chanzit and Laura Smith, Mary Abbott: To Draw Imagination, New York: Schoelkopf Gallery, 2025, pp. 94-95, pl. 49, illus. in color, pp. 130, 135

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