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MORRIS LOUIS (1912-1962)

Lot 11
19.11.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1336232
Lot 11 | MORRIS LOUIS (1912-1962)
Estimate value
$ 1 200 000 – 1 800 000
MORRIS LOUIS (1912-1962)
Hesperides
Magna on canvas
104 x 84 in. (264.2 x 213.4 cm.)
Painted in 1959-1960




Provenance

Park International, New York.
Kasmin Ltd., London.
Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, London (acquired from the above, by 1965).
Kasmin Ltd., London and Waddington Galleries, London (jointly acquired from the above).
Alistair McAlpine, London.
Waddington Galleries, London (acquired from the above, 1973).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1974.



Literature

M. Fried, Morris Louis, New York, 1970 (illustrated, pl. 69).
D. Upright, Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings, A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1985, p. 151, no. 203 (illustrated in color).
A. Tapert, "Mica Ertegun: Fine-Tuning an Enduring Arrangement in Manhattan" in Architectural Digest, vol. 54, no. 7, September 1997, p. 171 (illustrated in color in situ at the Ertegun Manhattan residence).



Exhibited

Milan, Galleria dell’Ariete, Morris Louis, November-December 1960, no. 5.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Morris Louis, February-July 1965, no. 9 (illustrated with inverted image).
New York, Lawrence Rubin Gallery, Morris Louis: Veil Paintings 1954-59, May 1970.
Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Amerikansk kunst 1950–70, September-October 1971, p. 39, no. 40 (illustrated in color, p. 20).
Bentonville, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Celebrating the American Spirit, November 2011-May 2012.
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