LOT DETAILS

Materials:

triptych--oil on canvas

Size Notes:

overall

Markings:

signed 'bluhm 59' (lower right of right panel); signed and dated again 'bluhm 59' (on the reverse of each panel) and titled 'winter nights' (on the reverse of the central panel)

Exhibited:

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Norman Bluhm, 1960. Chicago, Young Hoffman Gallery, Around 10th Street: Abstract Impressionism in the 1950s, 1976. Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum; Worcester Art Museum; New York, Grey Art Gallery, New York University; Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Austin, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Action/Precision: The New Direction in New York 1955-60, June 1984-February 1986, pp. 64-65, no. 6 (illustrated in color). Bronxville, Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, Inner Worlds, Fantastic Landscapes of the 1950s, 1987. Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Leo Castelli y sus Artistas: XXX años de promoción del arte contemporáneo, June-October 1987, pp. 114-115 and 274 (illustrated in color). New York, Washburn Gallery, Works from the 1950s, 1990. Youngstown, Butler Institute of American Art, Norman Bluhm: A Tribute Exhibition, March-April 1999, p. 6 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

K. Baker, "Second Generation: Mannerism or Momentum?", Art in America, June 1985, pp. 104, 106 (illustrated in color). J. Harithas, R. Rubenstein and L. Sansone, Norman Bluhm, Milan, 2000, pp. 21, 25, 31, 35 and 51 (illustrated in color).