LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

42.76 in. (108.60 cm.) (height) by 69.49 in. (176.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with initials and dated 'RD52' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'R. DIEBENKORN 1952 THE GREEN HUNTSMAN' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Beverly Hills, Paul Kantor Gallery, Richard Diebenkorn, November-December 1952. Chicago, Werner's Books, Exhibition Momentum Midcontinental, May 1953, no. 37. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, American Paintings 1945-1957, June-September 1957, no. 32. San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Richard Diebenkorn: Early Abstract Works 1948-1955, March-April 1975, p. 5 (illustrated). Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Cincinnati Art Museum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Oakland Museum, Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943-1976, November 1976-November 1977, pp. 19 and 110, no. 9 (illustrated in color). Palm Springs Desert Museum, The West as Art: Changing Perceptions of Western Art in California Collections, February-May 1982. London, Whitechapel Gallery and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Richard Diebenkorn, October 1991-January 1993. Taos, University of New Mexico, Harwood Museum, Diebenkorn in New Mexico, 1950-1952, June-September 2007, pl. 76 (illustrated in color). New York, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings & Drawings 1949-1955, May-June 2010, pp. 6-7 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

J. Langsner, "Art News from Los Angeles," Art News, November 1952, p. 50. "Richard Diebenkorn Wins Rosenberg Fellowship," San Francisco Art Association Bulletin, vol. 20, nos. 2 and 3, February-March 1954, n.p. N. Marmer, "Los Angeles: Richard Diebenkorn at James Corcoran," Art in America, July-August 1975, p. 110. M. Tuchman, "Richard Diebenkorn: The Early Years," Art Journal, vol. 36, no. 3, Spring 1977, p. 216, fig. 14 (illustrated). G.J. Hazlitt, "Diebenkorn: The Painter's Painter," Hughes Airwest Sundancer, September 1977, p. 44. B. Coffelt, "Doomsday in the Bright Sun," San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle, 16 October 1977. M. Lavatelli, "The Albuquerque Paintings of Richard Diebenkorn," MFA Thesis, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, 1979, p. 404, fig. 101.2 (illustrated in color). G. Nordland, Richard Diebenkorn, New York, 2001, pp. 45 and 53 (illustrated in color). T.A. Burgard, Masterworks of American Painting at the de Young, San Francisco, 2005, p. 404, fig. 101.2 (illustrated). L. Rossi, "Many Miles from 'Ocean Park'," Wall Street Journal, 23 January 2008. G. Montreuil, "New Mexico State of Mind," Gay City News, 14-20 February 2008. P. Selz, "Richard Diebenkorn's MFA," Art Ltd., March 2008, p. 42.

Provenance:

Estate of the artist. Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner.