Lee Bontecou

Private Collection

Sotheby Parke Bernet New York, 4 May 1974, lot 652 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Riva Castleman, American Impressions: Prints Since Pollock, New York 1985, no. 67, p. 96 (another example illustrated) 

Esther Sparks, Universal Limited Art Editions: A History and Catalogue, The First Twenty-Five Years, New York 1989, no. 4, pp. 50, 53, 288 (another example illustrated)

Detroit Institute of Arts, The W. Hawkins Ferry Collection, October – November 1966, no. 27, n.p., (another example exhibited)

New York, Museum of Modern Art, American Prints: 1915-1963, December 1974 – March 1975 (another example exhibited)

Washington D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, University of California; Tokyo, Sezon Museum of Art; Kitakysyu City, Kitakysyu Municipal Museum of Art, Proof Positive: Forty Years of Contemporary American Printmaking at ULAE, 1957-1997, February 1997 – July 1998, pl. 9, p. 41 (another example exhibited)

Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: The Norton Print Collection, September – December 2000, no. 18, n.p. (another example exhibited)

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Artistic Collaborations: 50 Years at Universal Limited Art Editions, January – May 2007 (another example exhibited)

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Lee Bontecou: All Freedom in Every Sense, April – September 2010 (another example exhibited)

Of the 29 known impressions of this print, including two artist's proofs, six trial proofs and at least two working proofs, fourteen are in the following prestigious public collections:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Art Institute of Chicago (7 impressions)

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Detroit Institute of Arts

Buffalo AKG Art Museum