Morris Louis

The artist

Clement Greenberg, New York

Vincent Melzac, Washington, D.C.

Christie's New York, 3 May 1989, lot 19 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Florida

Christie's New York, 19 November 1998, lot 364 (consigned by the above)

Sammlung Essl-Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Austria (acquired from the above)

Christie's London, 13 October 2014, lot 28 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Bennington College, Morris Louis, October - November 1960, no. 4, n.p.

Regina, Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Three New American Painters: Louis, Noland, Olitski, January - February 1963, p. 5, p. 10, illustrated in color and p. 12

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution; Bucharest, Sala Dalles; Timișoara, Muzeul Banatului; Cluj, Galeria de Arta; Bratislava, Slovak National Gallery; Prague, Wallenstein Palace and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, The Disappearance and Reappearance of the Image: American Painting Since 1945, January - November 1969, no. 38, p. 35, illustrated in color and p. 82

Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Vincent Melzac Collection, December 1970 - February 1971, no. 77, p. 26, illustrated in color and p. 97

London, Hayward Gallery, Morris Louis, June - September 1974, no. 14, p. 36 and p. 39, illustrated in color 

Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum; Belgrade, Museum of Modern Art; Rome, Gallery of Modern Art; Warsaw, National Museum of Poland and Baltimore, Maryland Science Center, Two Hundred Years of American Painting, June 1976 - February 1977, no. 43, n.p.

Jerusalem, Israel Museum and Tel Aviv Museum, Morris Louis, November 1980 - April 1981, no. 7, n.p., illustrated in color and p. 7

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Collection Selections, May - September 1987, pp. 22-23, illustrated in color and p. 68

Klosterneuburg, Sammlung Essl, The New Exhibition Building, Essl Collection, November 1999, p. 22, illustrated in color

Klosterneuburg, Sammlung Essl, Visions of America, October 2004 - March 2005, pp. 32, 40, and 156, illustrated in color

London, Sprüth Magers Gallery, From Wings to Fins: Morris Louis, Cyprien Gaillard, October - November 2013, p. 21, illustrated in color, p. 20 and pp. 40-42 illustrated in color (detail and installed) 

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, 1971 (extended loan)

Gerald Finley, "Louis, Noland, Olitski," Artforum, vol. 1, issue 9, March 1963, pp. 34-35, illustrated

Clement Greenberg, "3 New American Painters," Canadian Art, vol. 20, issue 3, 20 May 1963, pp. 173-174, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Edmonton Art Gallery, Ten Washington Artists: 1950-1970, 1970, p. 41, illustrated

Bruce Kurtz, "Abstraction and Actuality," Arts Magazine, vol. 48, issue 3, December 1973, p. 33, illustrated in color

Michael Fried, Morris Louis, New York 1979, no. 103, p. 6 and p. 138, illustrated 

Diane Upright, Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings, New York 1985, no. 193, p. 37, p. 150, illustrated in color, p. 209 and p. 263

Diane Upright, ed., Morris Louis, Baltimore 2015 - ongoing, illustrated in color (online)