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Surge, 1958, 91 1/2 x 149 1/2 in. (232.4 x 379.7 cm), Acrylic resin (Magna) on canvas, Inscribed, l.r.: ML 58, du82

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Collection:

Present location unknown [2023]

Provenance:

André Emmerich Gallery, New York

Baron Alain de Gunzburg, Paris

Washburn Gallery, New York

The Kogod Collection, Washington, D.C., United States, 1986

Exhibitions:

(E 26): New York: French & Company (cat. no. 11), April–May 1959

New York: Christie's (color, lot 47A) 11 May 2023

References:

(B 412): Upright 1985, cat. no. 82, color, p.140

Rosenblum, Robert, et al., 2929: The Kogod Collection (Washington D.C.: published privately, 2004), fig. 83, color, p. 111 and color, p. 388

Remarks:

When it was exhibited at French & Company in 1959, this painting measured 7 ft. 10 in. x 14 ft. 10 in. (238.8 x 452 cm.); it was later cut down and restretched.

ML number:

ML 4-60

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