Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Property from the Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson
Auction Closed
June 30, 01:51 AM GMT
Estimate
9,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
RICHARD DIEBENKORN
1922 - 1993
VIEW FROM A PORCH
signed with the artist's initials and dated 59; signed, titled, and dated 1959 on the reverse
oil on canvas
69 ¾ by 66 in. 177.2 by 167.6 cm.
Poindexter Gallery, New York
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Schneider, New York (acquired in 1960)
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1970
Betty Kaufman, "Diebenkorn," Commonweal, March 1965, p. 745
C. E. Maves, "Menlo Exhibit Shows Big Range of Artist," Palo Alto Times, 1974
David Bourdon, "In the Realm of Sensuous Color," Village Voice, 27 June 1977
Robert Hughes, "California in Eupeptic Color," Time Magazine, June 1977, p. 58 (text) and p. 59, illustrated in color
Ann Gold, "Diebenkorn Magic Returns to the Oakland Museum," San Francisco, October 1977, p. 108
John Seed, "Diebenkorn: Oakland Retrospective for ex-Stanford Painter," Stanford Daily, 13 October 1977
Beth Coffelt, "Doomsday in the Bright Sun," San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle, 16 October 1977
Exh. Cat., Venice, U.S. Pavilion, 38th Venice Biennial, Richard Diebenkorn: From Nature to Art, from Art to Nature, 1978, p. 24 (text) (titled View from the Porch)
Charles Shere, "Diebenkorn Looks Back and Ahead," Oakland Tribune Calendar, 29 May 1983
Frank Cebulski, "Richard Diebenkorn and the Humanly Abstract," Artweek, 2 July 1983, p. 1
Gerald Nordland, Richard Diebenkorn, New York 1987, p. 107, illustrated in color, and p. 245 (text) (titled View from the Porch)
"The Anderson Collection at Quadrus," Quadrus, 1988, no. B
John Arthur, Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting and the American Tradition, Boston 1989, pp. 51-53, illustrated
Michael Kimmelman, "Connections amid Diversity in Two London Retrospectives," New York Times, 19 November 1991
Juan Llorente, "Retrospectiva de Diebenkorn en la Fundación Juan March," La Gaceta de los Negocios, 31 January 1992
Kenneth Baker, "The Big Picture on Diebenkorn," San Francisco Chronicle, 19 November 1992
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Richard Diebenkorn: Works on Paper from the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Collection, 1993, p. 71
Victoria Dalkey, "Richard Diebenkorn: Master of Color and Space," Sacramento Bee, 8 November 1998
Blair Tindall, "See Panorama of Art through Andersons' Eyes," Contra Costa Times, 1 October 2000
Jack Fischer, "Paint the Town," San Jose Mercury News, 7 October 2000
Sandy Staggs, "All in Two Places," Oakland Tribune Preview, 20 October 2000, p. 19
Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective, 2005, p. 26, fig. 15, illustrated
Jean Arrouye, ed., Cézanne, d'un siécle à l'autre, Marseille 2006, pp. 188, 190, 195, 198 and 200 (text) (titled View from the Porch)
Cécile Whiting, Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s, Berkeley and Los Angeles 2006, pp. 78-79, fig. 32, illustrated (as View from the Porch)
Robert Taylor, "'Berkeley Years' Finds An Artist Between Worlds," San Jose Mercury News, 27 June - 3 July 2013
Bart Schneider, Ed., Richard Diebenkorn: Still Lifes and Landscapes, Berkeley 2014, p. 84
Jane Livingston and Andrea Liguori, Eds., Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné, Volume Three, New Haven and London 2016, pp. 369-70, no. 2725, illustrated in color
Rebekah Kirkman, "Dance of Anxiety," Baltimore City Paper, 11-18 January 2017
Philip Kennicott, "Watching Diebenkorn Follow, Then Pass, Matisse," Washington Post, 27 January 2017
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, The Image Lost and Found, May - August 1960, no. 38
New York, Poindexter Gallery, Richard Diebenkorn, March - April 1961
São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, VI Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, September - December 1961, no. 87
Washington, D.C., Washington Gallery of Modern Art; New York, The Jewish Museum; and Newport Beach, Pavillion Gallery, Richard Diebenkorn, November 1964 - April 1965, p. 43, no. 31, illustrated
Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum; Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall; and Bern, Kunsthalle, Kompas 4: Westkust USA, November 1969 - May 1970, p. 32, no. 17, illustrated
Stanford University Museum of Art; and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, A Decade in the West: Painting, Sculpture and Graphics from the Anderson Collection, June - October 1971, pp. 3 and 8, no. 11 (text) (titled View from the Porch)
Menlo Park, Sacred Heart Schools, Richard Diebenkorn: Drawings, 1944-1973, March - April 1974
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Cincinnati Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Oakland Museum of California, Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943-1976, November 1976 - November 1977, p. 70, no. 44, illustrated, and p. 111 (text) (titled View from the Porch)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Resource/Response/Reservoir - Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings, 1948-1983, May - July 1983, n.p., no. 13 (text) (titled View from the Porch)
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery; Madrid, Fundación Juan March; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Frankfurt, Städtische Galerie im Städel; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Richard Diebenkorn, October 1991 - January 1993, n.p., no. 22, illustrated in color (titled View from the Porch)
San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, June 1995 - November 1995, pp. 102-103, no. 41, fig. 16, illustrated in color
Santa Clara, Triton Museum of Art, A Bay Area Connection: Works from the Anderson Collection, 1954-1984, November 1995 - January 1996, p. 30, no. 16, pl. 16, illustrated in color and p. 47 (text) (titled View from the Porch)
New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Washington D.C., Phillips Collection; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Richard Diebenkorn, October 1997 - January 1999, cat. no. 158, pl. 104, illustrated in color
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000 - January 2001, p. 112, pl. 51, illustrated in color, and p. 359, no. 60 (text)
San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum; and Palm Springs Art Museum, Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966, June 2013 - February 2014, p. 145, pl. 70, illustrated in color, and p. 247 (text)
Baltimore Museum of Art; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Matisse/Diebenkorn, October 2016 - May 2017, p. 61, pl. 28, illustrated in color, and p. 176 (text)