Study 162: Betye Saar: The Sovereign Object

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Betye Saar, who died July 26, 2026 at ninety-nine, built one of the most rigorous anti-speculative practices in American art history. This study traces the tension between her material ethics, the institutions that ignored her for decades and now compete to define her legacy, and the posthumous market whose appetite for her practice is precisely the problem she spent her career diagnosing.

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