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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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

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Pat Steir (602 results)
Waterfall Monoprint #29, 1988

Pat Steir

Waterfall Monoprint #29, 1988

Sale Date: April 19, 2024

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Little Red Shapes, 1991

Pat Steir

Little Red Shapes, 1991

Sale Date: April 29, 2024

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Sepia Rainclouds

Pat Steir

Sepia Rainclouds

Sale Date: April 29, 2024

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Narrow Waterfall, 1991

Pat Steir

Narrow Waterfall, 1991

Sale Date: April 29, 2024

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Small Ghost Waterfall, 1993

Pat Steir

Small Ghost Waterfall, 1993

Sale Date: April 24, 2024

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Dessin (A,B) (diptyque)

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Dessin (A,B) (diptyque)

Sale Date: April 5, 2024

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Dessin (A,B) (diptyque)

Pat Steir

Dessin (A,B) (diptyque)

Sale Date: April 5, 2024

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NARROW WATERFALL, 1991

Pat Steir

NARROW WATERFALL, 1991

Sale Date: March 6, 2024

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Berlin Waterfall, 1993

Pat Steir

Berlin Waterfall, 1993

Sale Date: February 22, 2024

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Thursday, from Independent Curators 15th..., 1991

Pat Steir

Thursday, from Independent Curators 15th..., 1991

Sale Date: February 22, 2024

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Alphabet: Secondary, 2007

Pat Steir

Alphabet: Secondary, 2007

Sale Date: February 15, 2024

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Shape of Water, 2003

Pat Steir

Shape of Water, 2003

Sale Date: January 19, 2024

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GREEN AND SILVER SINGLE MARK WATERFALL – 2004, 2004

Pat Steir

GREEN AND SILVER SINGLE MARK WATERFALL – 2004, 2004

Sale Date: January 10, 2024

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BIG RED WITH MANY COLORS DARK MARK..., 2004

Pat Steir

BIG RED WITH MANY COLORS DARK MARK..., 2004

Sale Date: January 10, 2024

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Kyoto Chrysanthemum, 1982

Pat Steir

Kyoto Chrysanthemum, 1982

Sale Date: January 18, 2024

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BLUE AND YELLOW SINGLE MARK WATERFALL – 2004, 2004

Pat Steir

BLUE AND YELLOW SINGLE MARK WATERFALL – 2004, 2004

Sale Date: January 10, 2024

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Self as Madame Matisse, 1985

Pat Steir

Self as Madame Matisse, 1985

Sale Date: December 15, 2023

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Waterfall (from the Documenta IX portfolio), 1992

Pat Steir

Waterfall (from the Documenta IX portfolio), 1992

Sale Date: December 7, 2023

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Drawing Lesson With Six Pronged Passion..., 1984

Pat Steir

Drawing Lesson With Six Pronged Passion..., 1984

Sale Date: December 6, 2023

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Tiny Waterfall., 2004

Pat Steir

Tiny Waterfall., 2004

Sale Date: November 16, 2023

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Berlin Waterfall., 1993

Pat Steir

Berlin Waterfall., 1993

Sale Date: November 16, 2023

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Egg #081, 2014

Pat Steir

Egg #081, 2014

Sale Date: November 15, 2023

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Untitled, 1997

Pat Steir

Untitled, 1997

Sale Date: November 15, 2023

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From Dark to Light (from the Waterfall series), 1990

Pat Steir

From Dark to Light (from the Waterfall series), 1990

Sale Date: November 15, 2023

Auction Closed

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