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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 18, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 13B | $****** - ****** | Devolving |
paintings
172.7 x 254.6 cm (68 x 100.25 in)
Magna on canvas
Estate of the artist
Acquired from the above by the present owner
London, Hayward Gallery; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Morris Louis, June 1974-April 1975, p. 40, no. 15 (London, illustrated in color); p. 27, no. 10 (Düsseldorf and Brussels, illustrated in color); no. 9 (Humlebaek, illustrated in color).
Shiga, Museum of Modern Art, Morris Louis, September-October 1986, pp. 45 and 69, no. 10 (illustrated in color).
K. Roberts, “Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London,” Burlington Magazine, vol. 116, no. 857, August 1974, pp. 488-489, no. 106 (illustrated).
M. M. Wright, “Sovereign Color: Morris Louis in Washington,” New Lugano Review, 3, 1977, p. 57.
D. Upright, Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings, New York, 1985, pp. 158 and 215, no. 278 (illustrated in color).
Magna on canvas
68 x 100 1/4 in. (172.7 x 254.6 cm.)
Painted in 1959-1960.
