ID 1426174
Lot 539 | MORRIS LOUIS (1912-1962)
Estimate value
$ 800 000 – 1 200 000
Plenitude
Magna on canvas
90 ¾ x 140 in. (230.5 x 355.6 cm.)
Painted in 1958.
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Morris Louis Art Trust, Washington D.C.
Their sale; Christie's, New York, 11 May 2011, lot 62
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
D. Upright, Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings, New York, 1985, pp. 148 and 206, no. 168 (illustrated).
M. Godfrey, Abstraction and the Holocaust, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 24, fig. 7 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, French & Co., Morris Louis, April-May 1959, no. 16.
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Denver Art Museum; Fort Worth Art Museum; Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art, Morris Louis: The Veil Cycle, February 1977-January 1978, pp. 17, 20-21, 23-24 and 44, no. 17 (illustrated; dated 1959).
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Morris Louis: Veils and Variations, January-February 1992, n.p. (illustrated).
Scottsdale and Santa Fe, Riva Yares Gallery, Morris Louis: Major Paintings 1953-1962, March-September 2001, pp. 7 and 32 (illustrated on foldout).
Miami, The Goldman Warehouse, Jules Olitski: Six Decades, February-April 2005, p. 49 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., Conner Contemporary Art, Conversations in Lyrical Abstraction: 1958-2009, September-October 2009.
Artist: | Morris Louis (1912 - 1962) |
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Art style: | Post War Art |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Morris Louis (1912 - 1962) |
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Art style: | Post War Art |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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