Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from The Phillips Collection Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions
Berkeley #12
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May 13, 11:00 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from The Phillips Collection Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions
Richard Diebenkorn
(1922 - 1993)
Berkeley #12
signed with the initials RD and dated 54 (lower right); signed R. Diebenkorn and titled (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
53 ¼ by 43 ¼ in. 135.3 by 109.9 cm.
Executed in 1954.
Gimpel Fils, London (acquired in May 1961)
B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1973)
Allan Stone Gallery, New York (acquired from the above circa 1973)
Judith H. Miller (acquired from the above circa 1973)
Acquired as a gift from the above in 1990 by the present owner
“Museum Receives Gifts of Picasso and Diebenkorn Works,” Phillips Collection: News and Events, March-April 1994, no. 9
Jane Livingston and Andrea Liguori, eds., Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné, Volume Two, New Haven, 2016, no. 1337, RD 1111, p. 515, illustrated in color
Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, Berkeley, ongoing, no. 1337, no. RD 1111, illustrated in color (online)
London, Gimpel Fils, A Selection of East Coast and West Coast American Painters, 1962, no. 5, p. 4, illustrated (dated 1953)
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Sam Francis, Richard Diebenkorn: Two American Painters, Abstract and Figurative, 1965, no. 21
Nottingham, Midland Group Gallery and Nottingham Playhouse, American Painting and Sculpture, 1966, no. 43 (dated 1953)
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Palm Springs Art Museum, Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966, 2013-14, pl. 5, p. 86, illustrated in color
Newport Beach, Orange County Museum of Art, American Mosaic: Picturing Modern Art through the Eye of Duncan Phillips, 2016
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