Lot 252 : MORRIS LOUIS
Auction Location: United States of America - 2006
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Description:
1912-1962
SPAWN
69 3/4 by 103 in. 177.2 by 261.6 cm.
magna on canvas
Executed in 1959-1960.
PROVENANCE
Park International, New York
Kasmin Ltd., London
Sir Henry and Lady d'Avignor Goldsmid, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above
EXHIBITED
Milan, Galleria dell'Ariete, Morris Louis, November - December 1960, cat. no. 8
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., New New York Scene, October - November 1961, cat. no. 15
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Baden-Baden, Staaliche Kunsthalle; London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Morris Louis, February - July 1965, cat. no. 10
London, Hayward Gallery; Düsseldorf, Stadtische Kunsthalle; Humelbaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Morris Louis, June 1974 - April 1975, cat. no. 16, illustrated in color
Cambridge, England, Fitzwilliam Museum, Jubilation: American Art During the Reign of Elizabeth II, May - June 1977, cat. no. 18
LITERATURE
Michael Fried, Morris Louis, New York, 1970, pl. 81, illustrated
Robert Ayers, "Colour and Motion: Morris Louis", Artscribe, no. 33, February, 1982, p. 44 illustrated
Diane Upright, Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings, A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1985, cat. no. 260, p. 156, illustrated in color, p. 213
