Lot 11
  • 11

Milton Resnick

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Milton Resnick
  • Bending to Moon Bottom
  • signed and dated 1963 on the reverse; titled on the stretcher
  • oil on canvas
  • 68 by 50 1/8 in. 172.7 by 127.3 cm.

Provenance

Howard Wise Gallery, New York
Private Collection
The Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin Collection, New York
Private Collection, Nashville
Phillips de Pury & Co., New York, May 11, 2012, lot 165A
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, The Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin Collection, May - June 1967, cat. no. 149, illustrated
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Milton Resnick Five Years: 1959 - 1963, April - May 2002

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The canvas is unlined. The surface retains a rich impasto. There is some scattered hairline craquelure throughout. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there are small areas that fluoresce darkly in the center lower right and in the bottom left near the edge. Framed.
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