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Property from the Collection of Jennifer Gilbert Sold to Benefit Lumana Detroit

Kenneth Noland

Circle

Live auction begins on:

May 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Jennifer Gilbert Sold to Benefit Lumana Detroit

Kenneth Noland

(1924 - 2010)


Circle

signed (on the reverse)

acrylic on canvas

93 ¾ by 93 ⅞ in.

238.1 by 238.4 cm.

Executed in 1958.

Walter Beck, Liechtenstein

David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto (acquired from the above in 1968)

Andy Williams, California (acquired from the above in March 1970)

Christie's New York, 15 May 2013, lot 26 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Los Angeles, University of California, Color, February - March 1970, no. 1, p. 27, illustrated in color

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Toledo Museum of Art; and Denver Art Museum, Kenneth Noland: A Retrospective, April 1977 - May 1978, no. 4, p. 44 (text) and p. 50, illustrated in color

Los Angeles, Asher/Faure Gallery, A Tribute to Nicholas Wilder: Art from the Sixties, March - April 1990

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts and Fort Lauderdale, Museum of Art, Kenneth Noland: The Circle Paintings 1956–1963, November 1993 - May 1994, pl. 9, pp. 36, 46, 64 (text) and p. 65, illustrated in color (alternate orientation)

Paul Gardner, "The Hollywood collectors," ARTnews, Vol. 74, No. 1, January 1975, p. 41, illustrated

Amei Wallach, "Unfettered classicist," Newsday, Part II, 24 April 1977, p. 9, illustrated (with the artist)

Suzanne Stark Morrow, "Architectural Digest Visits: Andy Williams," Architectural Digest, Vol. 35, No. 7, September 1978, p. 125, illustrated in color (in Andy Williams' residence) (alternate orientation)

Karen Wilkin, "Notes on color field painting," The New Criterion, Vol. 26, No. 2, October 2007, illustrated in color (online)

Gerald Clarke, "Andy Williams: Artful Desert Living for the Singer and His Wife, Debbie," Architectural Digest, Vol. 66, No. 2, December 2009, p. 130, illustrated (in Andy Williams' residence) (alternate orientation) and p. 133 (text)

Jonathan Boos, LLC, Specializing in 20th Century American Art, New York 2014, p. 58 (text), p. 59, illustrated in color and illustrated in color (on the cover)

Paul Werner, "The world re-enchanted," Electra, No. 14, Autumn 2021, illustrated in color (online)