Pat Steir

(American, born 1940)

Pat Steir is an influential American painter. Best known for her Waterfall series of splashed, dripping pigment on canvas, her work is influenced by Color Field painting, Abstract Expressionism, and Taoist philosophy. Steir’s eclectic practice is characterized by an interest in aesthetic degradation, wherein she frequently breaks down her large, washy paintings into semblances of itself. "I wanted to destroy images as symbols,” the artist has said. “To make the image a symbol for a symbol. I had to act it out, make the image, and cross it out. No imagery, but at the same time endless imagery. Every nuance of paint texture worked as an image.” Born in 1938 in Newark, NJ, she received her BFA from the Pratt Institute in New York in 1962 and befriended and studied with many influential Conceptual and Minimalist artists of the day, including Sol Lewitt, Agnes Martin, and Lawrence Weiner. Steir has gained widespread acclaim for her representational and abstract works, holding solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum in 1984, and being represented in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others.

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by Stephanie Sporn
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See Inside Gagosian's Sweeping Show on Abstraction, Featuring More Than 40 Artists From Vija Celmins to Oscar Murillo

by Jo Lawson-Tancred
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Gallery Network

What Makes Pat Steir a Quintessential ‘Artist’s Artist’? Her First Solo Show at Gagosian Rome Explains It All

by Artnet Gallery Network
What Makes Pat Steir a Quintessential ‘Artist’s Artist’? Her First Solo Show at Gagosian Rome Explains It All

Pat Steir Artworks

Artworks for Sale &
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Pat Steir (640 results)
Untitled, 1983

Pat Steir

Untitled, 1983

Sale Date: March 15, 2023

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Wolf Waterfall, 1990

Pat Steir

Wolf Waterfall, 1990

Sale Date: March 10, 2023

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The Tree After Hiroshige, 1984

Pat Steir

The Tree After Hiroshige, 1984

Sale Date: February 15, 2023

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Wish #3 Transformation, 1974

Pat Steir

Wish #3 Transformation, 1974

Sale Date: January 25, 2023

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Wish #2 Breadfruit, 1977

Pat Steir

Wish #2 Breadfruit, 1977

Sale Date: January 25, 2023

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Alphabet: Secondary & Grisaille (2 works), 2007

Pat Steir

Alphabet: Secondary & Grisaille (2 works), 2007

Sale Date: January 11, 2023

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Untitled (Composition in Red and Black), 1998

Pat Steir

Untitled (Composition in Red and Black), 1998

Sale Date: December 15, 2022

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Thursday, 1991, 1991

Pat Steir

Thursday, 1991, 1991

Sale Date: December 9, 2022

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Untitled II, 2019 (Taipei), 2019

Pat Steir

Untitled II, 2019 (Taipei), 2019

Sale Date: November 30, 2022

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Black Drawing, 1977

Pat Steir

Black Drawing, 1977

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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Two Naples Yellow, 2013

Pat Steir

Two Naples Yellow, 2013

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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Paris Waterfall, 1990

Pat Steir

Paris Waterfall, 1990

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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Morning Moon, 2016–2017

Pat Steir

Morning Moon, 2016–2017

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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3AM; 5AM; 7AM; from Summer Dawn (3 works), 1998

Pat Steir

3AM; 5AM; 7AM; from Summer Dawn (3 works), 1998

Sale Date: November 1, 2022

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Deep River, Summer Pond, Moon Lake and Shape , 2003

Pat Steir

Deep River, Summer Pond, Moon Lake and Shape , 2003

Sale Date: October 26, 2022

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Between the Lines, 1974

Pat Steir

Between the Lines, 1974

Sale Date: October 25, 2022

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Untitled (Composition in Red and Black), 1998

Pat Steir

Untitled (Composition in Red and Black), 1998

Sale Date: October 14, 2022

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Buds

Pat Steir

Buds

Sale Date: October 7, 2022

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Peony, 1993

Pat Steir

Peony, 1993

Sale Date: October 3, 2022

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Abstraction Belief Desire, 1981

Pat Steir

Abstraction Belief Desire, 1981

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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When I think of Venice, 1980

Pat Steir

When I think of Venice, 1980

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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After Leonardo 5, 1988

Pat Steir

After Leonardo 5, 1988

Sale Date: September 28, 2022

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Waterfall, 1988

Pat Steir

Waterfall, 1988

Sale Date: September 8, 2022

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STEIR, PAT. Cry Stall Gaze., 2012

Pat Steir

STEIR, PAT. Cry Stall Gaze., 2012

Sale Date: February 17, 2022

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