Richard Diebenkorn

M. Knoedler and Co., New York
Collection of Carl D. Lobell, New York (acquired from the above in 1982)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above circa 1984)
Richard L. Feigen and Company, New York (acquired from the above in 1988)
Acquavella Galleries, New York and John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (acquired from the above circa 1988)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989

New York, M. Knoedler and Co., Richard Diebenkorn, January 1982, cat. no. 16, p. 9, illustrated
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Drawings, 1974-1984, March - May 1984, cat. no. 34, p. 81, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Kentfield, College of Marin, Richard Diebenkorn: Abstractions on Paper, 2013, p. 68
Jane Livingston and Andrea Liguori, Eds., Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné, Volume Four: Catalogue Entries 3762-5197, New Haven 2016, cat. no. 4494, pp. 315 and 324, illustrated in color

This work is in very good condition overall. There are artist pinholes in each of the four corners and along the edges. There is a slight undulation to the sheet and evidence of light wear and handling along the edges most notably at the four corners. Under very close inspection, there are media accretions and minor scratches to the sheet scattered throughout likely from the time of execution and part of the artist’s working process. The sheet is hinged verso to the mat intermittently along the top edge. Framed under Plexiglas.
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“All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this expression abstract seems to me often to confuse the issue. Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract...a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.” 
Richard Diebenkorn