Contemporary Day Auction

Contemporary Day Auction

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Property from The Phillips Collection Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions

Morris Louis

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Session begins in

May 16, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Bid

800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from The Phillips Collection Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions 

Morris Louis

1912 - 1962


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signed, titled and dated 62 (on the reverse)

Magna on canvas

83 ¼ by 28 in.

211.5 by 71.1 cm.

Executed in 1962.

André Emmerich Gallery, New York

Kimiko and John Powers, New York

Harold Diamond, New York

Judith H. Miller (acquired from the above circa 1973)

Acquired from the above in 1990 as a gift by the present owner


Diane Upright, Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 1985, no. 492, p. 177, illustrated in color

Ridgefield, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and Lincoln, The De Cordova Museum, Selections from the John G. Powers Collection, September 1966 - January 1967, no. 58, n.p., illustrated

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Summer Loan 1971: Collection of Kimiko and John Powers, July - September 1971, no. 13

Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton University Alumni Collectors’ Exhibition, May - June 1972

Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Lyrical Color: Morris Louis, Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland, and the Washington Color School, April - July 2007

Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Morris Louis, July - October 2011, illustrated in color (in the brochure)

Newport Beach, Orange County Museum of Art, American Mosaic: Picturing Modern Art Through The Eye Of Duncan Phillips, August - December 2016

Vero Beach Museum of Art, American Mosaic: Picturing Modern Art Through The Eye of Duncan Phillips, February - May 2020