Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
Property from The Phillips Collection Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions
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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
Approach
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
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