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Works from the Collection of Byron R. Meyer with Partial Proceeds to Benefit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Richard Diebenkorn

Albuquerque #20

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November 19, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Bid

500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Works from the Collection of Byron R. Meyer with Partial Proceeds to Benefit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Richard Diebenkorn

1922 - 1993


Albuquerque #20

signed with artist's initials and dated 52 (lower left)

oil on canvas

54 by 57 in.

137.2 by 144.8 cm.

Executed in 1952.

Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills (acquired by 1959)

Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hirsh, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above in 1959)

Sotheby Parke Bernet Los Angeles, 17 March 1971, lot 14 (consigned by the above)

Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Rowan, Los Angeles (acquired from the above)

Private Collection (acquired in 1972)

James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles (acquired by 1986)

Acquired from the above in 1986 by the present owner


Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum; University of California, Los Angeles, Art Galleries and Oakland Art Museum, The Artist's Environment: West Coast, November 1962 - April 1963, no.9, p. 49, illustrated in color

San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery and Los Angeles, James Corcoran Gallery, Richard Diebenkorn: Early Abstract Works, 1948-1955, March - December 1975, n.p., illustrated in color

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, no. 5, n.p., illustrated in color

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art of Richard Diebenkorn, October 1997 - January 1999, no. 15, p. 41, illustrated in color

Taos, University of New Mexico, Harwood Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Art; New York University, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center and Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, Diebenkorn in New Mexico, 1950 - 1952, June 2007 - September 2008, no. 71, p. 33, illustrated in color

Sara Giesen, "Richard Diebenkorn: Before and Behind the Eye," Arts Magazine, Vol. 49, No. 10, New York June 1975, p. 80

Beth Coffelt, "Doomsday in the Bright Sun," San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle, 16 October 1977

Gerald Nordland, Richard Diebenkorn, New York 1987, p. 51

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and traveling), The Art of Richard Diebenkorn, October 1997 - January 1998, fig. 15, pp. 41 and 43

"Artist Richard Diebenkorn's New Mexico Paintings United at Harwood Museum of Art," Art Business News, May 2007, p. 24

Elizabeth Cook-Romero, "At Last Glance," Pasatiempo, 17-23 August 2007

Exh. Cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (and traveling), Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, October 2009 - September 2010, fig. 119, p. 148, illustrated in color

Jane Livingston and Andrea Liguori, eds., Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné, Volume Four, Catalogue Entries 3762-5197, New Haven and London, 2016, no. 1162, cat. no. RD 1089, pp. 426-27, illustrated in color

Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, Berkeley, ongoing, no. 1162, cat. no. RD 1089, illustrated in color (online)