Sonia Sekula Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Sonia Sekula Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 12, 2024
SONIA SEKULA (1918 - 1963, SWISS/AMERICAN) XI.
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
SONIA SEKULA (1918 - 1963, SWISS/AMERICAN) XI. Gouache, ink, paper collage and sand on board, 1957. Signed, Sekula, dated, 57, and titled lower right. 330x240 mm; 13x9½ inches. Provenance: Private collection, Switzerland; Galerie Zachary Levy, Zurich; Private collection.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 19, 2024
Sonja Sekula - Luzern 1918–1963 Zürich «Konvolut mit Zeichnungen und Aquarellen» – 1961
Est: CHF4,800 - CHF6,500
Sonja Sekula Luzern 1918–1963 Zürich «Konvolut mit Zeichnungen und Aquarellen» – 1961 Das Konvolut mit 11 Papierarbeiten in losem Zeichnungsblock. Die Blätter recto oder verso signiert, monogrammiert, betitelt, bezeichnet und datiert ({1961}). Aquarell, Tusche, Bleistift a/Papier je 16,5 × 23 cm Provenienz: Prof Dr. Karl Bernhard, Basel; seit ca. 1988 Privatbesitz Schweiz.
Galerie Gloggner
Oct. 11, 2024
SONJA SEKULA (1918-1963) Skeletons of Feelings (Painted circa 1952-1958)
Est: £15,000 - £20,000
SONJA SEKULA (1918-1963) Skeletons of Feelings signed 'Sekula' (lower right); inscribed 'Skeletons of Feelings' (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 48.2 x 60.6cm (19 x 23 7/8in). Painted circa 1952-1958
Bonhams
Jun. 25, 2024
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963
Est: CHF2,000 - CHF3,000
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963 Ohne Titel Öl und Grattage auf Papier unten in der Mitte signiert Sekula 50 x 34,5 cm
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
Jun. 12, 2024
SONJA SEKULA
Est: CHF2,000 - CHF4,000
(Luzern 1918–1963 Zürich) Komposition in Blau. 1961. Aquarell auf Papier. Unten rechts in Bleistift signiert und datiert. Blattgrösse 21x30,9 cm. Gerahmt. - Blatt minimst gebräunt. Blatt wurde vollflächig auf Rückkarton montiert.
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Jun. 01, 2024
Sekula Sonja
Est: CHF1,200 - CHF1,500
Heimfahrt Unten rechts signiert. Gerahmt Ausrufdatum: 01.06.2024 Ungefähre Ausrufzeit: 16:44
Auktionshaus Zofingen
May. 02, 2024
SONIA SEKULA (1918 - 1963, SWISS/AMERICAN) Untitled.
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
SONIA SEKULA (1918 - 1963, SWISS/AMERICAN) Untitled. Gouache on paper. Signed, Sekula, lower right. 165x210 mm; 6½x8¼ inches. Provenance: Estate of the artist; Galerie Raphaël Lévy, Zurich, Switzerland; Private collection.
Swann Auction Galleries
Mar. 20, 2024
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963
Est: CHF1,500 - CHF2,000
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963 Diavolos Gouache auf Papier unten rechts bezeichnet und signiert Diavolos-300n! Sekula 42 x 59.5 cm
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
Mar. 20, 2024
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963
Est: CHF2,000 - CHF3,000
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963 Ohne Titel, 1962 Aquarell, Tinte und Gouache auf Papier unten links signiert und datiert Sekula 62 29.5 x 20.4 cm *For this lot VAT of 8,1% will also be charged on the hammer price.
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
Dec. 15, 2023
SEKULA, SONJA
Est: CHF2,000 - CHF3,000
(Luzern 1918–1963 Zürich) Ohne Titel. 1958. Öl auf Papier mit Collage. Unten rechts in Buntstift signiert und datiert. Lichtmass 68,8x48,8 cm. Gerahmt. - Dieses Werk wurde nicht ausgerahmt.
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Oct. 21, 2023
Sonja Sekula - Luzern 1918–1963 Zürich
Est: CHF3,800 - CHF4,800
Sonja Sekula Luzern 1918–1963 Zürich «Ohne Titel» – 1962 Unten links signiert und datiert {Sekula 62}. Öl und Gouache a/Papier, 51 × 36 cm
Galerie Gloggner
Jun. 21, 2023
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963
Est: CHF2,500 - CHF3,500
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963 Diavolos Gouache auf Papier unten rechts bezeichnet und signiert Diavolos-300n! Sekula 42 x 59,5 cm
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
Mar. 22, 2023
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963
Est: CHF3,000 - CHF5,000
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963 Ohne Titel Tusche und Gouache auf Papier unten rechts signiert Sekula 49,5 x 69,5 cm
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
Mar. 22, 2023
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963
Est: CHF1,500 - CHF2,000
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963 Ohne Titel, 1962 Öl auf Papier unten rechts signiert und datiert SEKULA, 11.2.962 58,5 x 34 cm (Lichtmass) *For this lot VAT of 7,7% will also be charged on the hammer price.
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
Mar. 22, 2023
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963
Est: CHF1,000 - CHF1,500
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963 To be able to work, 1958 Tusche auf Papier unten links bezeichnet To be able to work also when unable inwardly to formulate. Not to wait for the "must" but just to over come unten rechts signiert, nummeriert und datiert S. SeKula I 1958 21 x 15 cm
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
Dec. 16, 2022
SEKULA, SONJA
Est: CHF500 - CHF800
(Luzern 1918–1963 Zürich) "Together". 1957. Gouache auf Papier. Unten rechts in Bleistift signiert, datiert und betitelt. Blattgrösse 36x25,7 cm. Gerahmt. - Blatt minimst gebräunt und wenig fleckig. Verso vollflächig an Rückkarton montiert.
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Sep. 23, 2022
SEKULA, SONJA
Est: CHF2,000 - CHF3,000
(Luzern 1918–1963 Zürich) "Garden-Party". 1957. Grattage auf Karton. Unten rechts signiert und datiert. Verso betitelt, mit Stempel: "Galerie Palette Zürich" und Etikett einer Gallery in New York. Kartonmasse 49x31,5 cm. - Ränder und Ecken bestossen mit Blattverlust. Leicht schmutzig. Verso mit zwei montierten Aufhängungen am oberen Rand.
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Jun. 24, 2022
SEKULA, SONJA
Est: CHF700 - CHF1,000
(Luzern 1918–1963 Zürich) Ohne Titel. 1959. Mischtechnik und Collage auf Papier. Unten rechts in Bleistift signiert und datiert. Blattgrösse 14,9x21,1 cm. Gerahmt. - Blatt leicht verblasst und leicht gewellt. Dunklere Lichtränder. Ränder und Ecken minimst bestossen. Am rechten Rand mit Abrrisspuren eines Skizzenblocks. Verso mit Klebrestspuren und in allen Ecken an Passepartout montiert.
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Jun. 22, 2022
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963
Est: CHF2,000 - CHF3,000
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963 Ohne Titel, 1961 Aquarell und Tusche auf Papier unten rechts der Mitte signiert und datiert Sekula XI 61 62,5 x 48,5 cm *For this lot VAT of 7,7% will also be charged on the hammer price.
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
Jun. 22, 2022
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963
Est: CHF1,500 - CHF2,000
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963 Das Gewitter machen, 1951 Gouache und Tusche auf Papier unten rechts signiert und datiert Sekula 51 unten links bezeichnet Das Gewitter machen 30 x 22,5 cm *For this lot VAT of 7,7% will also be charged on the hammer price.
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
May. 26, 2022
Sonja Sekula (Swiss 1918-1963)
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
Sonja Sekula (Swiss 1918-1963) Révrete 44 inscribed 'Les avalanches de la tristese et le soleil des bas du jardin obscure...Petit poeme pour Gigi, de Sonja' (lower left) ink and pen on paper 21.5 x 14cm Provenance: Collection of the late Gigi Richter (Irmingard Emma Antonia Crompton) Dedicated to noted botanist and art conservator, Gigi Richter, the poem inscribed in the left-hand margin of the present lot translates to “the avalanches of sadness and the sun from the bottom of the dark garden”. Dated 1944, the work was executed whilst both Gigi Richter and Sonja Sekula were living in New York City and moving within the same social circles made up of both the New York Surrealists and the emerging generation of Abstract Expressionists. During this time, Richter was working as a laboratory assistant at the Brooklyn Museum, whilst Sekula was emerging as one of the significant female voices in the art world, having just been featured as part of Peggy Guggenheim’s 1943 exhibition, 31 Women. Whilst the dedication to Richter documents the friendship between the pair, the quiet pathos of the poem also demonstrates the melancholia that stalked Sekula’s adult life. Described by Robert Motherwell as ‘like a screwed-up poet; very intense, a very depressed person…She was very vulnerable and fragile’, Sekula was placed in several psychiatric facilities during her life. In 1963, aged 45, Sekula sadly took her own life, though she remains celebrated as a seminal figure in mid-20th century art.
Cheffins
Oct. 21, 2021
Sonia Sekula ''Close to a Wave'' 1954 Gouache
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Sonia Sekula (1918-1963 American) ''Close to a Wave'' 1954 Gouache on Paper 8.5''x11'' Sight. Signed and dated l.r. Plasteel fine framing 16''x18.5''. Excellent condition. From the family collection of Willis F. Woods, former director at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Executive Director at the Seattle Art Museum (1974-1979).
MBA Seattle Auction LLC
Jun. 18, 2021
SEKULA, SONJA
Est: CHF500 - CHF800
(Luzern 1918–1963 Zürich) Ohne Titel. Schwarz/Gelb. 1961. Öl auf Papier. Unten links in Bleistift signiert und mit Prägestempel: "Geraco". Verso in Bleistift signiert und datiert. Blattgrösse 33,7x25 cm. -Blatt gebräunt und leicht fleckig. Am oberen Rand mit Abrissspuren eines Skizzenblocks. Verso mit Klebrestspuren.
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Jun. 18, 2021
SEKULA, SONJA
Est: CHF800 - CHF1,400
(Luzern 1918–1963 Zürich) Ohne Titel. 1955. Gouache auf Papier. Unten rechts signiert und datiert. In der unteren rechten Ecke unleserlich nummeriert. Blattgrösse 31x41 cm. Gerahmt. -Blatt leicht gebräunt und etwas fleckig. Ränder und Ecken minimst bestossen. Am linken Rand mit Abrissspuren eines Skizzenblocks. Verso am oberen Rand partiell an Rückkarton montiert.
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May. 01, 2021
Sonia (Sonja Sakula) Sekula, Swiss/American 1918-1963, Petit Poem Dramatic pour Ma Mere, 1959, ink and crayon on paper, 3"H x 6"W
Est: $400 - $600
Sonia (Sonja Sakula) Sekula Swiss/American, 1918-1963 Petit Poem Dramatic pour Ma Mere, 1959 ink and crayon on paper signed and dated lower right. From the estate of author William Goyen. From Wikipedia: Sonia was a Swiss-born artist linked with the abstract expressionist movement, notable for her activity as an "out" lesbian in the New York art world during the 1940s and early 1950s.She lived in America from 1936 to 1955. She attended Sarah Lawrence College. She met the surrealists in exile in New York during 1942. On 25 April 1963 she hanged herself in her studio in Zurich after many years of mental health issues. She is buried in St. Moritz as she had requested in a letter to her mother.
Ripley Auctions
Apr. 27, 2021
Sonja Sekula (1918-1963)
Est: CHF800 - CHF1,200
Sonja Sekula (1918-1963) Moment in Blue, gouache et encre, signée, 50x37,5 cm. Collection André Kuenzi (1916-2005)
Geneve Encheres
Apr. 06, 2021
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963
Est: CHF600 - CHF800
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963 Ohne Titel, 1959 unten rechts signiert und datiert S. Sekula XI.7.59 *For this lot VAT of 7,7% will also be charged on the hammer price.
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
Nov. 24, 2020
Sekula Sonja, 1918-1963, Étude d'août
Est: CHF800 - CHF1,200
Signed lower right, dated and titled: S. Sekula, 1959, Étude d'août. (Frame).
Germann Auction House Ltd
Nov. 24, 2020
Sekula Sonja, 1918-1963, Each Time - Chaque fois
Est: CHF500 - CHF700
Signed lower center: Sekula. Titled and dated: Each Time - Chaque Fois, 57.XI. (Frame).
Germann Auction House Ltd
Nov. 24, 2020
Sekula Sonja, 1918-1963, Étude d'août
Est: CHF1,000 - CHF1,500
Signed lower right, dated and titled: Sekula, 59, Étude d'août. (Frame).
Germann Auction House Ltd
Nov. 24, 2020
Sekula Sonja, 1918-1963, November + a day
Est: CHF500 - CHF900
Signed lower right, dated and titled: Sekula, XI.51, November + a day. (Frame).
Germann Auction House Ltd
Nov. 24, 2020
Sekula Sonja, 1918-1963, Chaque jour - premier - dernier amour
Est: CHF500 - CHF900
Signed lower right: Sekula. (Frame).
Germann Auction House Ltd
Sep. 29, 2020
SONJA SEKULA (1918-1963) Les avalanches de la tristesse et le soleil d
Est: CHF2,500 - CHF3,500
SONJA SEKULA (1918-1963) Les avalanches de la tristesse et le soleil des bas du jardin obscure titled and inscribed ' Les avalanches de la tristesse et le soleil des bas du jardin obscure, Petit poème pour Gigi, de Sonja ' (lower left) ink and pen on paper 21,5 x 13,7 cm. ,
Christie's
Sep. 29, 2020
SONJA SEKULA (1918-1963) Attente d'Écume signed with
Est: CHF6,000 - CHF8,000
SONJA SEKULA (1918-1963) Attente d'Écume signed with the artist's initials and titled ' SS Attente d'Écume ' (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 40,5 x 50 cm. Painted in 1944 ,
Christie's
Sep. 26, 2020
Sonja / Sonia Sekula, (Swiss-American, 1918-1963), Foam, 1949, gouache on paper, 7"H x 11 3/4"W (image), 16 3/4"H x 14 3/4"W (frame).
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Sonja / Sonia Sekula (Swiss-American, 1918-1963) Foam, 1949 gouache on paper signed, titled and dated lower right. Provenance: Betty Parsons Gallery, New York. Woodward Gallery, New York. Biography from the archives of AskArt: Born in Switzerland of a Swiss mother and a Hungarian father, she came with her parents to the U.S. in 1936. She attended George Grosz's private art school on Long Island and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying with Morris Kantor and Raphael Soyer. As a young person she associated with Matta, Duchamp and Ernst, artist friends of her parents. She had chronic bouts of mental illness, and, suffering a failed love affair with a woman and the decline in acceptance of her work, she committed suicide in Switzerland. She is remembered as an important artist of the 1940s, an abstractionist in a time of Surrealism and Abstraction. 7"H x 11 3/4"W (image), 16 3/4"H x 14 3/4"W (frame).
Ripley Auctions
Sep. 23, 2020
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963
Est: CHF1,000 - CHF1,500
Sonja Sekula 1918–1963 growing, near sea, 1957 unten rechts signiert und datiert Sekula 57 unten in der Mitte bezeichnet growing, near sea *For this lot VAT of 7,7% will also be charged on the hammer price. RefCon17920
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
Jun. 27, 2020
Sonia SEKULA (1918-1963)
Est: CHF300 - CHF600
Sonia SEKULA (1918-1963) Sechs Serigraphien, 15/40, hrsg. Weihnachten 1967 43 x 34,5 x 1,7 cm
Galerie Moenius
Jun. 25, 2020
Sonia SEKULA (1918-1963)
Est: CHF700 - CHF1,400
Sonia SEKULA (1918-1963) Ohne Titel Wasserfarbe, Buntstift (?) auf Papier, mit Bleistift signiert und datiert 1961 33 x 22,5 cm, Rahmen: 51,5 x 39,5 cm RefInt12620
Galerie Moenius
Jun. 25, 2020
Sonia SEKULA (1918-1963)
Est: CHF400 - CHF800
Sonia SEKULA (1918-1963) Ohne Titel Wasserfarbe und Buntstift (?) auf Papier, signert und datiert 3.3.1961 ca. 21 x 12 cm, Rahmen: 35,5 x 25,5 cm RefInt12620
Galerie Moenius
Jun. 25, 2020
Sonia SEKULA (1918-1963)
Est: CHF700 - CHF1,400
Sonia SEKULA (1918-1963) ZIG-ZAG Öl auf Zeichenblock-Papier, in der Mitte signiert, verso voll signiert, datiert und bezeichnet: oil, Werknr. 101. 25 x 33,5 cm, Rahmen: 50,5 x 40,5 cm Provenienz: Westschweizer Privatbesitz. RefInt12620
Galerie Moenius
Jun. 24, 2020
Sonja Sekula (1918–1963)
Est: CHF20,000 - CHF30,000
Evolution des hommes et des comètes
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
Jun. 24, 2020
Sonja Sekula (1918–1963)
Est: CHF2,000 - CHF3,000
Ohne Titel
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
Jun. 24, 2020
Sonja Sekula (1918–1963)
Est: CHF8,000 - CHF12,000
Nach-Mittag
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
Jun. 23, 2020
Sekula Sonja, 1918-1963, Semence d'onde
Est: CHF1,000 - CHF1,500
Gouache. Signed and dated lower right: Sekula, 59. (Frame).
Germann Auction House Ltd
May. 16, 2020
Sonia Sekula, (New York / Switzerland, 1918-1963), untitled, 1959, mixed media collage with oil, tissue paper and sand, 21 1/2"H x 1...
Est: $800 - $1,200
Sonia Sekula (New York / Switzerland, 1918-1963) untitled, 1959 mixed media collage with oil, tissue paper and sand Gimpel & Hanover Galerie Zurich label verso. signed lower center. From Ask Art: Born in Switzerland of a Swiss mother and a Hungarian father, she came with her parents to the U.S. in 1936. She attended George Grosz's private art school on Long Island and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying with Morris Kantor and Raphael Soyer. As a young person she associated with Matta, Duchamp and Ernst, artist friends of her parents. She had chronic bouts of mental illness, and, suffering a failed love affair with a woman and the decline in acceptance of her work, she committed suicide in Switzerland. She is remembered as an important artist of the 1940s, an abstractionist in a time of Surrealism and Abstraction. 21 1/2"H x 10 1/2"W (sight), 27 3/4"H x 16 3/4"W (frame)
Ripley Auctions
Dec. 13, 2019
SEKULA, SONJA
Est: CHF1,800 - CHF2,500
(Luzern 1918–1963 Zürich) Ohne Titel. 1959. Mischtechnik auf Papier. Unten rechts in Bleistift signiert und datiert: "59.VI.". Blattgrösse 60,5x39 cm. Gerahmt. -Blatt leicht gewellt. Ränder und Ecken bestossen mit leichtem Farbverlust durch Abrieb.
Schuler Auktionen
Nov. 26, 2019
Sekula Sonja, 1918-1963, Semence d'onde, 1959
Est: CHF1,500 - CHF2,000
Gouache. Signed and dated lower right: Sekula, 59. (Frame).
Germann Auction House Ltd
Feb. 17, 2019
Sonia Sekula (Swiss/American, 1918-1963) Abstract 1947 Oil Painting
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Sonia Sekula (Swiss/American, 1918-1963) Oil Painting. Les Dernier Chateau (The Last Castle). Oil painting on canvas. Signed and titled lower right S. Sekula ’47 Les Dernier Chateau (The Last Castle). Painting is numbered in pencil on back of canvas, #90. Stretcher is numbered and titled with a Leo Rehfeld framers label, NY. In trapezium shape, painting measures 24 inches high,12.5 inches wide at top and 16 inches at the bottom. Framed with a flat wooden strip and faced with aluminum trim. In good condition with three small pinholes. Small professionally repaired 3 inch slit lower right. Painting is from a Southold, New York estate. From Sept. 20, 1996 NY Times article by Grace Glueck : If ever an artist started out right, it was Sonja Sekula (1918-1963). Born in Switzerland, the only child of well-to-do parents, she moved to New York City with them in 1936, and in the family's Park Avenue apartment met a wide range of European artists and writers exiled by the war. Thus launched in cultural circles, Sekula -- an ethereal, ''poetic'' young woman who studied art at Sarah Lawrence College and at the Art Students League -- became, in the 1940's, a sort of golden girl of the Surrealists and Abstract Expressionists; a lovely butterfly bathed in the aura of such friends and sometime collaborators as Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell. She was much influenced by their work and by the Surrealist concept of automatic writing, which played a key role in the development of Abstract Expressionism. She showed at two of Manhattan's hottest spaces at the time, the Peggy Guggenheim and the Betty Parsons galleries; published a text in the Surrealist magazine VVV and got to know the composers Morton Feldman and John Cage and the choreographer Merce Cunningham (for whom she designed costumes). ''She was unusually gifted; her work had conviction, an authenticity that made you wonder who this person is and what is going to happen to all this talent,'' Feldman said in a 1971 interview. What did happen is a poignant story. Emotionally fragile, Sekula had her first psychotic breakdown at the age of 21, and for the rest of her life was in and out of mental institutions. Nagged by doubts about her work, she was unable to produce for long periods. The financial strain of her illness forced the family back to Switzerland, where she had to live with her parents. Finally, at the age of 45, cut off from the New York art world, her friendships and her resources worn thin, she hanged herself in her studio. Now, neglected even in feminist annals, Sekula's work has undergone something of a revival in her native country. The exhibition now at the Swiss Institute New York is an abridgement of a retrospective organized earlier this summer at the Kunstmuseum in Winterthur, Switzerland by the museum's director, Dieter Schwarz. It is the first Sekula show in the United States since a 1971 exhibition at the Finch College Art Gallery in Manhattan. Turning away, like others of her circle, from the cliches of French Cubism, Sekula relied heavily on automatic writing, a kind of doodling in which the pen or brush, guided by the subconscious, is allowed to roam freely over the surface, making marks theoretically liberated from prevailing modes. From this, her work took on a strong linear structure. ''African Moonsun'' (1945), the earliest canvas in the show, in subdued ''night'' colors of blue, brown and black, is a vigorous, intense synthesis of biomorphic and tree- or boat-shaped forms, accented, outlined and tied together with an irregular network of white lines. Another potent influence was American Indian culture, especially that of the Northwest coast. You can see it in ''Le Bon Dieu (the Prophet)'' (1947-48), a thinly colored totemic painting that echoes tribal images.These influences were filtered through the work of other artists, among them the Chilean-born Roberto Matta, in whose spacey metaphysical canvases biomorphic forms seem to float in infinity; Wifredo Lam, a Cuban whose paintings were based on African sculpture and primitive mythology, and Mark Tobey, an American noted for his linear calligraphy, or ''white writing.'' Close to their concepts are such Sekula paintings as ''Mechanics, With Sentiments'' (1948) and ''Under the Bridges'' (1949), each a composition of intricately drawn linear verticals climbing through space, accented by small painted passages in pale colors. Unlike the Abstract Expressionist stars she knew, Sekula never really developed a big ''signature'' style of her own. But if her work is derivative, she absorbed the lessons well. And her best paintings -- of the late 1940's and early 50's -- have a vibrancy and elegance all their own. They are distinguished by overall calligraphic markings and incidents on painted grounds, as in ''Silence'' (1951), a large canvas in misty grays. Thin white lines course down the surface like gentle rain; delicate black scribbles and symbols march over them like random graffiti. A particularly beautiful smaller work on paper is ''Grace'' (1952), a Klee-like drawing that incorporates fragments of writing along with disk and crescent shapes in white on red and black grounds. ''Premonition'' (1956), another arresting work on paper, deploys overtly religious symbolism, white crosses and steeples drawn on a black ground with patches of blue. As her world diminished, Sekula's work became more modest in scope, less publicly oriented and more inward-looking. Of no small interest here are the collages, sketchbooks, haiku and poem-drawings of her last years, as she shook off the art world and entered into a vivid dialogue with herself.
Myers Fine Art