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Lunar Episode by Kenneth Noland

Kenneth Noland

Lunar Episode, 1959

Magna on canvas
172.7 x 177.8 cm (68 x 70 in)
Paintings
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (13 May 2022)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 13, 2022
Christie'sNew York20th Century Evening Sale52C
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

172.7 x 177.8 cm (68 x 70 in)

Materials

Magna on canvas

Signature

signed 'KENNETH NOLAND' (lower right); signed again and titled 'NOLAND LUNAR EPISODE' (on the reverse)

Provenance

French & Co., New York

Carter Burden Collection, New York

Blum Helman Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the late owner

Exhibited

New York, French & Co., Kenneth Noland Paintings , October-November 1959, no. 27 (illustrated).

New York, Marlborough Gallery Inc., Selected Works from the Collection of Carter Burden, May-June 1974, p. 15 (illustrated).

Visual Arts Gallery of NYC, Kenneth Noland: Early Circle Paintings , January 1975.

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Toledo Museum of Art and Denver Art Museum, Kenneth Noland: A Retrospective, April-May 1977, no. 10 (illustrated).

Literature

N. Frackman, "Arts Reviews," Arts Magazine, September 1974, vol. 49, p. 54, no. 1 (illustrated).

K. Moffett, Kenneth Noland, New York, 1977, no. 72 (illustrated).

Kenneth Noland: The Circle Paintings 1956-1963 , exh. cat., Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, 1993, p. 10, fig. 23 (illustrated).

I. Barker, Anthony Caro: A Quest for the New Sculpture , London, 2004, p. 88 (illustrated).

Alfred Jensen: The Number Paintings , exh. cat., New York, PaceWildenstein, 2006, p. 14, fig. 5 (illustrated).

Description

KENNETH NOLAND (1924-2010)

Lunar Episode

signed 'KENNETH NOLAND' (lower right); signed again and titled 'NOLAND LUNAR EPISODE' (on the reverse)

Magna on canvas

68 x 70 in. (172.7 x 177.8 cm.)

Painted in 1959.