Contemporary Day Auction

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Property Sold To Benefit The Walker Art Center

Morris Louis

Split Spectrum

Auction Closed

May 14, 09:30 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property Sold To Benefit The Walker Art Center

Morris Louis

1912 - 1962


Split Spectrum

signed, titled twice and dated '61 (on the reverse)

Magna on canvas

81 ½ by 48 in.

207 by 121.9 cm.

Executed in 1961.

Estate of the artist

André Emmerich Gallery, New York

Judy and Kenneth Dayton, Minneapolis (acquired from the above in 1985)

Acquired as a gift from the above in 2022 by the present owner

Elwin Lynn, "Louis in Australia", Art International, November 1971, p. 33

Diane Upright, Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1985, no. 490, p.177, illustrated in color

Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, Focus on Light, May ­- September 1967

Edmonton Art Gallery, Ten Washington Artists: 1950- 1970, February - March 1970, no. 3, p. 4, illustrated

Honolulu Academy of Arts; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria; Auckland City Art Gallery and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Morris Louis, April 1971 - February 1972, no. 8, illustrated

New York School of Visual Arts, American Color: 1961- 1964, March - April 1976

Orlando, Loch Haven Art Center; Tampa, University of South Florida and Miami-Dade Community College, Two Decades of Abstraction, September 1978 - March 1979

South Bend, The Art Center, Twentieth-Century American Masters, January - February 1978

Los Angeles, Asher/Faure Gallery, André Emmerich Presents Paintings by Morris Louis, May - June 1979

Paris, Grand Palais, L'Amerique aux Independants, March­ - April 1980, p. 92, illustrated in color (on the cover)

New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Morris Louis 1912 - 1962: An Exhibition to Mark the Publication of Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, September 1985, no. 12, illustrated in color