Lot 185
  • 185

Morris Louis

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Morris Louis
  • Number 49
  • magna on canvas
  • 80 1/4 by 11 1/4 in. 203.8 by 28.6 cm.
  • Executed in 1962.

Provenance

Estate of the Artist
Miriam Jaegerman, Bethesda
Private Collection, Maine
Sotheby's, New York, November 12, 2008, lot 250
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

Bucharest, Sala Dalles; Timisoara, Museul Banatului; Cluj, Galeria de Arta; Bratislava, The Slovak National Gallery; Prague, Wallenstein Palace, The National Gallery; Brussels, The Palais des Beaux-Arts, The Disappearance and Reappearance of the Image: Painting in the United States Since 1945, January - November 1969, cat. no. 40

Literature

Diane Upright, Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings, New York, 1985, cat. no. 598, p. 187, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There are some small pulls to the weave in the canvas. Upon very close inspection, there is evidence of light discoloration along the edges of the unprimed canvas and some minor scattered accretions visible under raking light. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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