LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and pencil on canvas

Measurements:

75.00 in. (190.50 cm.) (height) by 75.00 in. (190.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, titled and dated '64 on the reverse

Exhibited:

New York, School of Visual Arts Gallery/Visual Arts Museum, April - May 1971; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Negotiating Rapture: The Power of Art to Transform Lives, June - October 1996, cat. no. 37, p. 99, illustrated in color; Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Santa Fe, SITE Santa Fe, Agnes Martin/Richard Tuttle, April - August 1998 (Santa Fe only); Beacon, Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, Extended Loan, 2000 to June 2013

Literature:

Lynne Cooke and Michael Govan, Dia:Beacon, New York, 2003, p. 211, illustrated in color (incorrectly dated 1965); Paul Greenhalgh, The Modern Ideal: The Rise and Collapse of Idealism in the Visual Arts, from Enlightenment to Postmodernism, London, 2005, fig. 4.26, p. 173, illustrated in color

Provenance:

Robert Elkon Gallery, New York; Acquired by the present owner from the above in April 1965