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Horizontal VIII, 1962, 25 3/4 x 95 1/2 in. (65.4 x 242.6 cm), Acrylic resin (Magna) on canvas, du640

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Collection:

Private collection

Provenance:

André Emmerich Gallery, New York

Clement Greenberg, New York

Sotheby's, New York (sale 8202, lot 110), 15 November 2006

Exhibitions:

(E 140): New York: André Emmerich Gallery, 1968

(E 249): New York: Lawrence Rubin Gallery, 1973

(E 319): Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art (cat. no. 15, color), 1976–77

(E 435): New York: Museum of Modern Art; Fort Worth, Texas: Fort Worth Art Museum; Washington D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution (color, p. 169), 1986-1987

(E 462): Grenoble, France: Musée de Grenoble; Münster, Germany: Westfälisches Landesmuseum (color, pp. 94-95), 1996

References:

(B 359): Carmean, Jr., E. A, “Morris Louis and the Modern Tradition.” Arts Magazine 51 (December 1976), pp. 116–19.

(B 412): Upright 1985, cat. no. 640, color, p.190

(B 457): Dufrene 1996, bw, p. 51

ML number:

ML 44

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