Some of Aggie’s Ligons

Glenn Ligon, Study for Negro Sunshine (Red) #5, 2019, oilstick and acrylic on paper, 16 x 12 in., being sold to benefit the Gund Art Foundation There’s something kind of great about so many of the works in Agnes Gund’s collection coming from benefit auctions. In a way, she understood the assignment: if an artist is going to be asked, and going to make the gesture of donating an artwork to a cause, someone needs to buy it. And one artist who donated works repeatedly is Glenn Ligon, and one person who bought them repeatedly was Aggie. The earliest of the three Ligons coming up for sale in the Gund Art Foundation sale at Christie’s is Double Self-Portrait, which Ligon donated to Gund’s own non-profit, Studio in the Schools, in 1995. Gund bought Ligon’s little Untitled punching bag the next year at the New Museum Gala. And the 1999 work on paper, Study for Fire Next Time/Hands, went through/for Jasper Johns’s Foundation For Contemporary Arts in 2001. But the one that stands out is the one…

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