John McLaughlin

Estate of the artist
Private Collection, Laguna Beach
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1988

Laguna Beach, Laguna Art Museum; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum; John McLaughlin: Western Modernism/Eastern Thought, July 1996 - August 1997, cat. no. 15, p. 19, illustrated in color

Frances Colpitt, ed., Abstract Art in the Late 20th Century, Cambridge, 2002, p. 2, illustrated

This work is in good condition overall. There are some faint scattered accretions. There is inconsistency to the application of the white pigmented area, likely due to the artist’s working method, and a few very minor areas of pigment loss in the upper left of the white. Under close inspection, the extreme edges of the pale blue rectangle have some very minor pinpoint pigment losses. Under Ultraviolet light inspection there is evidence of scattered minor inpainting in the white and black pigmented areas. Framed in artist's frame and encased in a Plexiglas box frame.
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