Lot 143
  • 143

Kenneth Noland

Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
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Description

  • Kenneth Noland
  • Lapis Lazuli
  • signed, titled and dated 1963 on the reverse
  • acrylic on canvas
  • 69 5/8 by 69 5/8 in. 176.8 by 176.8 cm.
  • Executed in 1963.

Provenance

André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Collection of Lucille and John Murchison, Dallas
Sotheby's, New York, 9 May 1990, Lot 155
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Baltimore Museum of Art, New Wing for Modern Art Highlights, October 1994
Baltimore Museum of Art, Selections from the Permanent Collection, January - March 2003

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is light evidence of wear and handling along edges. The colors are bright and fresh. There are minor pinpoint and unobtrusive light accretions and faint abrasions visible throughout and a pinpoint white media accretion visible along the upper right edge. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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Catalogue Note

"Morris [Louis] and I used to talk about what we called one-shot painting. I guess it had to do with the fact that if you were impressed with what you were doing, you only had to do it one time if you could get yourself together so that each thing that you did was just done that one time with no afterthoughts and it had to stand."
Kenneth Noland