Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
Property Sold To Benefit The Walker Art Center
Split Spectrum
Auction Closed
May 14, 09:30 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property Sold To Benefit The Walker Art Center
Morris Louis
1912 - 1962
Split Spectrum
signed, titled twice and dated '61 (on the reverse)
Magna on canvas
81 ½ by 48 in.
207 by 121.9 cm.
Executed in 1961.
Estate of the artist
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Judy and Kenneth Dayton, Minneapolis (acquired from the above in 1985)
Acquired as a gift from the above in 2022 by the present owner
Elwin Lynn, "Louis in Australia", Art International, November 1971, p. 33
Diane Upright, Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1985, no. 490, p.177, illustrated in color
Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, Focus on Light, May - September 1967
Edmonton Art Gallery, Ten Washington Artists: 1950- 1970, February - March 1970, no. 3, p. 4, illustrated
Honolulu Academy of Arts; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria; Auckland City Art Gallery and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Morris Louis, April 1971 - February 1972, no. 8, illustrated
New York School of Visual Arts, American Color: 1961- 1964, March - April 1976
Orlando, Loch Haven Art Center; Tampa, University of South Florida and Miami-Dade Community College, Two Decades of Abstraction, September 1978 - March 1979
South Bend, The Art Center, Twentieth-Century American Masters, January - February 1978
Los Angeles, Asher/Faure Gallery, André Emmerich Presents Paintings by Morris Louis, May - June 1979
Paris, Grand Palais, L'Amerique aux Independants, March - April 1980, p. 92, illustrated in color (on the cover)
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Morris Louis 1912 - 1962: An Exhibition to Mark the Publication of Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, September 1985, no. 12, illustrated in color
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