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The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection

Morris Louis

Beth Kaf

Auction Closed

May 15, 12:36 AM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection

Morris Louis

(1912 - 1962)


Beth Kaf

acrylic on canvas

92 ¼ by 134 ½ in.

234.3 by 341.6 cm.

Executed in 1958.

André Emmerich Gallery, New York

Waddington Galleries, London

E. J. Power, London

M. Knoedler & Co., New York

Acquired from the above in September 1978 by the present owner

Geneva, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire; Basel, Galerie Beyeler; Madrid, Fundación Juan March; Barcelona, Fundación Joan Miró; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Art; and Aarhus, Kunstmuseum, America America, July 1976 - September 1978, no. 37, n.p., illustrated in color (Basel); no. 16, n.p., illustrated in color (Madrid); no. 19, pp. 32-33, illustrated in color (Barcelona) (traveled to Basel, Madrid, and Barcelona only)

Enrique Azcoaga, "La Exposicion de Arte U.S.A. Y La Critica," Fundación Juan March Boletin, No. 59, April 1977, p. 26 (text)

Diane Upright, Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 1985, no. 128 [ML 67], p. 144, illustrated in color and p. 203 (text)

Diane Upright, ed., Morris Louis, Baltimore 2015 - ongoing, no. ML 67, illustrated in color (online) (accessed 24 April 2026)