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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 10, 2010 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Day Auction | 116 | $****** - ****** | Terranean |
paintings
229.9 x 370.8 cm (90.51 x 145.98 in)
magna on canvas
Estate of the Artist (ML 2-18)
Acquired by the present owner from the above
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Morris Louis: Paintings Never Before Exhibited: 1957-1960, March - April 1966 Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; The St. Louis Art Museum, Morris Louis: 1912-1962, February - August 1967, cat. no. 29, p. 52, illustrated in color New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painting and Sculpture, 1940-1970, October 1969 - February 1970, cat. no. 241, p. 223, illustrated London, Hayward Gallery; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Morris Louis, June 1974 - April 1975, cat. no. 9, illustrated in color (London), cat. no. 6, illustrated in color (Düsseldorf), cat. no. 5 (Humlebaek), cat. no. 6, illustrated in color (Brussels) Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Morris Louis: Major Themes and Variations, September 1976 - January 1977, cat. no. 3, illustrated in color
Michael Fried, "The Achievement of Morris Louis," Artforum, Vol. 6, February 1967, p. 35, illustrated in color Michael Fried, Morris Louis, New York, 1970, pl. 38, illustrated in color Vogue, February 15, 1972, p. 90, illustrated in color John Russell, "The Last Great Task of Art," The New York Times, July 27, 1974, p. 25 John Elderfield, "Morris Louis and Twentieth-Century Painting," Art International, Vol. 21, May - June 1977, p. 26 Diane Upright, Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings, A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1985, cat. no. 114, pp. 37, 73, 143 and 202, illustrated in color
