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MORRIS LOUIS (1912-1962)

Lot 611
22.11.2024 12:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1336464
Lot 611 | MORRIS LOUIS (1912-1962)
Estimate value
$ 1 200 000 – 1 800 000
MORRIS LOUIS (1912-1962)
Pillar of Celebration
Magna on canvas
89 x 55 in. (226.1 x 139.7 cm.)
Painted in 1961.




Provenance

Clement Greenberg, New York, acquired directly from the artist
Vincent Melzac, Washington, D.C.
His sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 20 May 1983, lot 424
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner



Literature

L. G. Benson, “The Washington Scene.” Art International, vol. 13, no. 10, Christmas 1969, p. 37.
D. Upright, Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings, A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1985, p. 173, no. 439 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Jewish Museum, Toward a New Abstraction, May-September 1963, p. 19, no. 18 (illustrated upside down).
Bucharest, Sala Dalles; Timisdara, Muzeul Banatului; Cluj, Galeria de Arta; Bratislava, Slovak National Gallery; Prague, Wallenstein Palace and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, The Disappearance and Reappearance of the Image, February-November 1969, n.p., no. 39.
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vincent Melzac Collection, December 1970-February 1971, p. 65, no. 79 (illustrated upside down).
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the Friends of the Corcoran, October 1971, n.p., no. 79 (illustrated).
Palm Beach, Norton Gallery and School of Art, The Vincent Melzac Collection, Part One: The Washington Color Painters, January-February 1974, p. 57, no. 22 (illustrated upside down).
Edmonton, Alberta Gallery of Art, on loan, August 1981-May 1982.
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