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Morris Louis
Estimate
700,000 - 900,000 USD
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Description
- Morris Louis
- Gamma Kappa
- magna on canvas
- 102 by 157 in. 259.1 by 398.8 cm.
- Executed in 1960.
Provenance
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
Private Collection, Europe
Private Collection
Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
Private Collection, Europe
Private Collection
Literature
Diane Upright, Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings, New York, 1985, no. 345, p. 220, ilustrated in color
Catalogue Note
Louis spills his paint on unsized and unprimed cotton duck canvas, leaving the pigment almost everywhere thin enough, no matter how many different veils of it are superimposed, for the eye to sense the threadedness and wovenness of the fabric underneath. But "underneath" is the wrong word. The fabric being soaked in paint rather than merely covered by it, becomes paint itself, color in itself, like dyed cloth; the threadedness and wovenness are in the color – Clement Greenberg