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Vav, 1959, 102 1/2 x 141 1/2 in. (260.4 x 359.4 cm), Acrylic resin (Magna) on canvas, du175

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Rights administered by Artists Rights Society (ARS)

Collection:

Tate, London, United Kingdom. Presented by Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Heinz II through the Friends of the Tate Gallery, 1968

Provenance:

André Emmerich Gallery, New York

Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Heinz II, New York and London

Exhibitions:

(E 102): New York: André Emmerich Gallery (color, cover), 1966.

(E 128): Seattle Art Museum (cat. no. 7, color), 1967

(E 131): Washington, D.C.: Washington Gallery of Modern Art (cat. no. 15, color, cover), 1967

(E 462): Grenoble, France: Musée de Grenoble; Münster, Germany: Westfälisches Landesmuseum (color, p. 77), 1996

(E 495): Chiba, Japan: Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art (color, p. 21 & no. 7, p. 39), 2008

References:

(B 215): Alley 1969, color pl. 14

The Tate Gallery, Acquisitions, 1968–69 (London: The Tate Gallery, 1969), p. 19

The Tate Gallery 1968–70 (London: The Tate Gallery, 1970), p. 93

(B 325): Bannard 1974, bw, p. 19

Measham, Terry, The Moderns, 1945–1975 (Oxford: Phaidon, 1976), color pl. 53

(B 401): Ayers 1982, bw, p. 43

(B 412): Upright 1985, cat. no. 175, color, p.148

Bracewell, Michael; Filler, Martin; Hirst, Damien, Ian Davenport: 25 Years of Painting (London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2014), color, fig. 12, p. 181

ML number:

ML 55

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